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叟

叟

叟 U+53DF, 叟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53DF
← 叞
[U+53DE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 叠 →
[U+53E0]
See also: 叜

Translingual

Han character

叟 (radical 29 又+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹X中水 (HXLE), four-corner 77407, composition ⿱𦥔又)

  1. old man
  2. elder

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 166, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3176
  • Dae Jaweon: page 378, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 399, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+53DF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 叟

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (叟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
㮴 *suːw
艘 *suːw, *sɯːw
嫂 *suːwʔ
瞍 *sɯːw, *suːʔ
謏 *slɯːwʔ, *suːʔ, *suːs, *srɯwɢ
叜 *sluːʔ
叟 *suːʔ
傁 *suːʔ
廋 *suːʔ, *sru
醙 *suʔ, *sru
遚 *sʰrus
餿 *sru
搜 *sru
颼 *sru
溲 *sru, *sruʔ
鎪 *sru
獀 *sru
鄋 *sru
螋 *sru, *sro
騪 *sru
瘦 *srus

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 又 ‎(“hand”) + 火 ‎(“fire”) + 宀 ‎(“roof, house”) – need to carry a light indoor to see – dim vision, old man. Top component (火 under 宀) now abstracted – this occurred in some forms of seal characters – and somewhat resembles 印.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 叟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇后切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /səuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /səuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /səuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /səwX/
Li
Rong		 /suX/
Wang
Li		 /səuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 叟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sǒu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ suwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-ruʔ/ (dialect: > *sruʔ > MC srjuwX > sruwX > suwX)
English old man

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 叟
Reading # 1/1
No. 12070
Phonetic
component		 叟
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 叜
Old
Chinese		 /*suːʔ/
Notes 同叜隸變

Definitions

叟

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Compounds

  • 北叟失馬／北叟失马
  • 叟兵
  • 叟叟
  • 河曲智叟
  • 漫叟
  • 煙波釣叟／烟波钓叟
  • 白叟
  • 白叟黃童／白叟黄童
  • 瞽叟
  • 童叟無欺／童叟无欺
  • 老叟
  • 蒙叟
  • 迂叟
  • 野叟曝言
  • 釣叟／钓叟
  • 黃童白叟／黄童白叟

Japanese

Kanji

叟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

叟 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su)

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Vietnamese

Han character

叟 (tẩu)

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