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素
素
Translingual
In modern form, top component looks like 生 without the diagonal stroke – compare 責, 青.
Han character
素 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手一女戈火 (QMVIF), four-corner 50903, composition ⿱龶糸)
See also
References
- KangXi: page 918, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27300
- Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3368, character 3
- Unihan data for U+7D20
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
素 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
- Wade-Giles: su4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
- IPA (key): /su⁵¹/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sou3
- Yale: sou
- Cantonese Pinyin: sou3
- IPA (key): /sou̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su
- Hakka Romanization System: su
- Hagfa Pinyim: su4
- IPA: /su⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘
- Tâi-lô: sòo
- Phofsit Daibuun: sox
- IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /sɔ¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ²¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 素 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /su⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /su⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /su⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /su²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /su⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /su³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /su⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /ɕy²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /su¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /su¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /su²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /səu³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /su¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /su²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /su²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /su⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /su⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /su⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /səu³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /su⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /su³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /səu⁵¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /su⁴⁴⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /sɤu⁴²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /su³²⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /səu⁴²/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /səu⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /səɯ⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /su⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /sz̩⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /su⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /sou³³/ |
| Nanning | /ɬu³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /sou³³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /sɔ²¹/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /sou²¹²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /su³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /su²¹³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/so³⁵/ /to³⁵/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 素 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 桑故切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/suoH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/suoH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/soH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/sɔH/ |
| Li Rong |
/soH/ |
| Wang Li |
/suH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/suoH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
sù |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 素 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
sù |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ suH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[s]ˤak-s/ |
| English | white silk |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 素 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12099 |
| Phonetic component |
素 |
| Rime group |
魚 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
訴 |
| Old Chinese |
/*saːs/ |
Definitions
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Compounds
Compounds
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Derived terms
Korean
Hanja
素 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)
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Etymology
| Historical forms of the character 素
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|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (素) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 素 | *saːs |
| 傃 | *saːs |
| 嗉 | *saːs |
| 膆 | *saːs |
| 塐 | *saːs |