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Translingual

Han character

(radical 137 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜竹X水 (HYHXE), four-corner 27447, composition)

  1. counter for ships, vessels

References

  • KangXi: page 1012, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30511
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1470, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3064, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8258

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*suːw
*suːw, *sɯːw
*suːwʔ
*sɯːw, *suːʔ
*slɯːwʔ, *suːʔ, *suːs, *srɯwɢ
*sluːʔ
*suːʔ
*suːʔ
*suːʔ, *sru
*suʔ, *sru
*sʰrus
餿 *sru
*sru
*sru
*sru, *sruʔ
*sru
*sru
*sru
*sru, *sro
*sru
*srus

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *suːw, *sɯːw) : semantic  (boat) + phonetic  (OC *suːʔ) – counter for boats.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/seu/
Pan
Wuyun
/seu/
Shao
Rongfen
/seu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛw/
Li
Rong
/seu/
Wang
Li
/sieu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12064 12066
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*suːw/ /*sɯːw/
Notes

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Kanji in this term
そう
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Counter

(hiragana そう, romaji -sō)

  1. small boats

Korean

Hanja

(so) (hangeul , revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(sưu)

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