久

Stroke order

Stroke order

久 (Kangxi radical 4, 丿+2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 弓人 (NO) or 難弓人 (XNO), four-corner 2780₀, composition ⿸𠂊㇏)

• 𠮻, 𡉌, 𠖮, 奺, 汣, 杦, 玖, 畂, 镹, 畝, 㝌, 㡱, 疚, 羑, 灸, 粂, 匛

• く (Hiragana character derived from man'yōgana)
• ク (Katakana character derived from man'yōgana)
• 𛀫 (Hentaigana)
• 𛀬 (Hentaigana)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 81, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 118
• Dae Jaweon: page 165, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 33, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4E45

Historical forms of the character 久
Small seal script   s03941 Transcribed ancient scripts   L35395   L35396   L35397   L35398   L35399   L18239   L18240   L18241   L18242   L18243   L18244   L18245   L18246   L18247   L18248   L18249
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Used interchangeably with 氒 in oracle bone script. Likely a pictogram (象形) of an arrow tip.

Possibly Sino-Tibetan. Compare Bantawa [script needed] (kʰokpa, “old man”) (Sagart, 2017d), which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kwak (“old”).

舊 (OC *N-kʷəʔ-s) may be a derivative (Baxter and Sagart, 2014). See there for more.

久

1. (of time) long

   你待了多久？  ―  Nǐ dāi le duōjiǔ?  ―  How long did you stay?

   我們走路走了很久。 [MSC, trad.]
   我们走路走了很久。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒmen zǒulù zǒu le hěn jiǔ. [Pinyin]

   We walked for a long time.

2. a surname

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. long time

• Go-on: く (ku, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: ひさしい (hisashii, 久しい, Jōyō)
• Nanori: きゅ (kyu)、わ (wa)、なが (naga)、ひさ (hisa)、ひさし (hisashi)

久(ひさし) • (Hisashi) 

1. a male given name

久 (eumhun 오랠 구 (orael gu))

1. hanja form^? of 구 (“to be long”)

• 乆 (cửu)^[1][2]

久: Hán Việt readings: cửu (舉(cử)有(hữu)切(thiết))^[3]
久: Nôm readings: cửu^[4]

1. chữ Hán form of cửu (“for a long time”).

久

1. Sawndip form of gyaeuj (“head; headhair”)