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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水木中人 (EDLO) or X水木中人 (XEDLO), four-corner 37182)

  1. gargle, rinse
  2. wash, scour

References

  • KangXi: page 647, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18171
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1057, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1719, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6F31

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sloː, *sloːɡ, *sloɡ
*sloː, *sloːɡs, *srus
*sloː
*sloːʔ, *sloŋʔ
*sloːɡs, *sroːɡ, *sloːɡ
*sloːɡs
*sloːɡs, *sroːɡ
*sloːɡs, *srus
*sreːɡ, *sroɡs, *sroɡs
*sloŋʔ
*sloŋʔ
*sʰroːɡ
*sreːɡ, *sʰloːɡ, *sloːɡ, *l̥ʰoɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sʰloɡ
*hljoɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (21) (16)
Final () (136) (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃɨuH/ /səuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃiuH/ /səuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃiəuH/ /səuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂuwH/ /səwH/
Li
Rong
/ʃiuH/ /suH/
Wang
Li
/ʃĭəuH/ /səuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂi̯ə̯uH/ /sə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shòu sòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shù
Middle
Chinese
‹ srjuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]rok-s/
English wash

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11868 11869
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sloːɡs/ /*srus/

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Korean

Hanja

(su) (hangeul , revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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