{
 "id": "khu",
 "type": "word",
 "names": {
  "name": "คู khu",
  "th": "คู",
  "rtgs": "khu"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "etymology": {
  "root": "คู khu — Tai root, a dug channel. Khu mueang, the city ditch, is the moat; the same word in Bangkok, but there is only one khu that matters here.",
  "tier": "tradition"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The moat, and by extension the roads on its banks. 'Rop khu' is the loop.\n\nThe 1931 and 1945 city sheets both label it คูเวียง, khu wiang, the ditch of the walled town, rather than khu mueang. Two official maps fourteen years apart agree, and usage on the ground today has drifted to khu mueang."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "คูเมือง และโดยนัยคือถนนบนตลิ่งของมัน 'รอบคู' คือวงรอบ\n\nแผ่นเมืองปี 2474 และ 2488 กำกับมันว่า คูเวียง คูของเมืองมีกำแพง ไม่ใช่คูเมือง แผนที่ทางการสองแผ่นห่างกันสิบสี่ปีตรงกัน และการใช้บนพื้นที่ทุกวันนี้เคลื่อนไปเป็นคูเมือง"
 },
 "word": {
  "th": "คู",
  "rtgs": "khu",
  "ipa": "/kʰuː/",
  "standard": "คูเมือง",
  "standard_rtgs": "khu mueang",
  "gloss": "moat; ditch",
  "gloss_th": "คูเมือง",
  "example": "รอบคูเมือง",
  "example_gloss": "rop khu mueang — around the moat; the ring road on its banks"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "moat-loop",
   "as": "The roads on it.",
   "rel": "ring"
  },
  {
   "to": "map-1931",
   "as": "Labels it khu wiang.",
   "rel": "map"
  },
  {
   "to": "map-1945",
   "as": "Labels it khu wiang.",
   "rel": "map"
  }
 ],
 "tags": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:moradok-lanna-dict",
  "s:wp-northern-thai",
  "s:commons-map"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:moradok-lanna-dict"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "khu/khu-201703291023a-chiang-mai-city-moat.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:201703291023a Chiang Mai, City Moat.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/201703291023a_Chiang_Mai%2C_City_Moat.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A201703291023a_Chiang_Mai%2C_City_Moat.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
   "author": "Hartmann Linge",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "City moat of Chiang Mai between Chiang Mai Gate and Suan Prung Gate",
   "date": "2017-03-29 10:23:35",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "e1b6ba2efb374f3ac6864cdb555aec2c5b5a65005cb99057e4c925d67ba4ee00"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "map-1931",
   "type": "map",
   "name": "The 1931 city map",
   "as": "It labels the moat with this word."
  },
  {
   "from": "map-1945",
   "type": "map",
   "name": "The 1945 city map",
   "as": "It labels the moat with this word."
  },
  {
   "from": "the-moat",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "The moat",
   "as": "The word."
  }
 ]
}