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穗

穗

See also: 穂

Translingual

Han character

穗 (radical 115 禾+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹木十戈心 (HDJIP), four-corner 25933)

References

  • KangXi: page 860, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25298
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1286, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2631, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7A57

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 穗

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (惠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
韢 *skʰʷeds
繐 *sqʰʷeds, *ɢʷiːds
憓 *ɢʷiːds
潓 *ɢʷiːds
惠 *ɢʷiːds
蟪 *ɢʷiːds
蕙 *ɢʷiːds
橞 *ɢʷiːds
譓 *ɢʷiːds
鏸 *ɢʷiːds
穗 *sɢʷids

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sɢʷids) : semantic 禾 + phonetic 惠 ‎(OC *ɢʷiːds).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 穗
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 徐醉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ziuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /zʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /zjuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zwiH/
Li
Rong		 /zuiH/
Wang
Li		 /zwiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /zwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 suì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 穗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 suì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zwijH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.[ɢ]ʷi[t]-s/
English ear of grain

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 穗
Reading # 1/1
No. 5490
Phonetic
component		 惠
Rime
group		 至
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 遂
Old
Chinese		 /*sɢʷids/

Definitions

穗

  1. ear of grain
  2. tassel
  3. Guangzhou

Compounds

  • 一禾九穗
  • 一穗三秀
  • 吐穗
  • 孕穗 (yùnsuì)
  • 抽穗 (chōusuì)
  • 拾穗
  • 接穗
  • 果穗
  • 煙穗／烟穗
  • 燭穗／烛穗
  • 瑞穗鄉／瑞穗乡
  • 盈車嘉穗／盈车嘉穗
  • 稻穗
  • 穗兒／穗儿
  • 穗子
  • 穗狀花序／穗状花序
  • 穗軸／穗轴
  • 穗選／穗选
  • 糠穗
  • 肉穗花序
  • 辮穗頭／辫穗头
  • 麥穗／麦穗
  • 麥穗兩歧／麦穗两歧
  • 黑穗病

Japanese

Kanji

穗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

穗 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

穗 (tuệ)

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