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菽
菽
Translingual
Han character
菽 (radical 140 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜火水 (TYFE), four-corner 44947, composition ⿱艹叔)
References
- KangXi: page 1040, character 14
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31241
 - Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 7
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3232, character 9
 - Unihan data for U+83FD
 
Chinese
| 
simp. and trad. | 
菽 | |
|---|---|---|
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
 - Wade-Giles: shu1
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
 -  IPA (key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˊ
 - Wade-Giles: shu2
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shwu
 - IPA (key): /ʂu³⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: suk1, suk6
 - Yale: sūk, suhk
 - Cantonese Pinyin: suk7, suk9
 - IPA (key): /sʊk̚⁵/, /sʊk̚²/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 菽 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) | 
| Final (韻) | 屋 (4) | 
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 式竹切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/ɕɨuk̚/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/ɕiuk̚/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/ɕiuk̚/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/ɕuwk̚/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/ɕiuk̚/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/ɕĭuk̚/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/ɕi̯uk̚/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
shu | 
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 菽 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin)  | 
shū | 
| Middle Chinese  | 
‹ syuwk › | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*s-t(ʰ)uk/ | 
| English | pulse, beans | 
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: 					* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;  | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 菽 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 11761 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
尗 | 
| Rime group  | 
覺 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
2 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
叔 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*hljɯwɢ/ | 
| Notes | 同尗 | 
Definitions
菽
- beans and peas, collectively
 
Japanese
Kanji
菽
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
菽 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)
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