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壽
壽
Translingual
Han character
壽 (radical 33 士+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土弓一戈 (GNMI), four-corner 40641, composition ⿳⿳士乛工一吋)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 244, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5672
- Dae Jaweon: page 484, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 483, character 10
- Unihan data for U+58FD
Chinese
| trad. | 壽 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 寿 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (壽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 禱 | *tuːʔ, *tuːs |
| 擣 | *tuːʔ |
| 檮 | *tuːʔ, *duː, *du |
| 壔 | *tuːʔ |
| 懤 | *tuːʔ, *du, *dus |
| 濤 | *duː, *duː |
| 燾 | *duː, *duːs |
| 翿 | *duː, *duːs |
| 幬 | *duːs, *du |
| 儔 | *duːs, *du |
| 譸 | *tu |
| 籌 | *du |
| 疇 | *du |
| 躊 | *du |
| 燽 | *du |
| 薵 | *du |
| 魗 | *tʰjuʔ, *dju |
| 醻 | *dju |
| 壽 | *djuʔ, *djus |
| 璹 | *djuʔ, *djuɡ |
| 鑄 | *tjos |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄡˋ
- Wade-Giles: shou4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: show
- IPA (key): /ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sau6
- Yale: sauh
- Cantonese Pinyin: sau6
- IPA (key): /sɐu̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siū
- Tâi-lô: siū
- Phofsit Daibuun: siu
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiu²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiu⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiu²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕiu³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiu³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 壽 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ʂou⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /ʂou⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin |
/ʂou⁵³/ /sou⁵³/ |
|
| Jinan | /ʂou²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /ʃou⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ʂou³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /ʂou⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /ʂɯ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʂəu¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ʂou¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ʂɤu²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /səu³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /səu¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /səu²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /ʂəu²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʂəɯ⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /ʂɯ⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /səu⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /ʂəu³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /səu⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /zɤ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /zɤ³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /zei¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /jɤu²²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɕiu²²/ |
| Tunxi | /ɕiu¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha |
/ʂəu⁵⁵/ /ʂəu¹¹/ |
| Xiangtan | /ʂəɯ²¹/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /sɨu²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /su⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /ʃu⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /sɐu²²/ |
| Nanning | /sɐu²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /sɐu²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /siu²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /sieu²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /siu⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /siu³¹/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /tiu³³/ |
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 壽 | 壽 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) | 尤 (136) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 殖酉切 | 承呪切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/d͡ʑɨuX/ | /d͡ʑɨuH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/d͡ʑiuX/ | /d͡ʑiuH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/d͡ʑiəuX/ | /d͡ʑiəuH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/d͡ʑuwX/ | /d͡ʑuwH/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʑiuX/ | /ʑiuH/ |
| Wang Li |
/ʑĭəuX/ | /ʑĭəuH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʑi̯ə̯uX/ | /ʑi̯ə̯uH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
shòu | shòu |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 壽 | 壽 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
shòu | shòu |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ dzyuwX › | ‹ dzyuwH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[N-t]uʔ/ | /*[N-t]uʔ-s/ |
| English | longevity | longevity |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 壽 | 壽 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 11707 | 11709 |
| Phonetic component |
壽 | 壽 |
| Rime group |
幽 | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
受 | 授 |
| Old Chinese |
/*djuʔ/ | /*djus/ |
Definitions
壽
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
壽
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 寿)
Readings
- Goon: じゅ (ju)
- Kan’on: しゅう (shū) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’yōon: す (su)
- Kun: ことぶき (kotobuki), ことぶく (寿く, kotobuku), ことほぐ (寿ぐ, kotohogu)
- Nanori: かず (kazu), じ (ji), じゅう (jū) すっ (sut), すみ (sumi), とし (toshi), としかつ (toshikatsu), なが (naga), のぶ (nobu), のり (nori), ひさ (hisa), ひさし (hisashi), やす (yasu), やすし (yasushi)
Usage notes
Seldom used in modern Japanese. See the 寿 entry for further details.
Korean
Hanja
壽 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)
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