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Translingual

Han character

(radical 190 +12, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹竹竹金 (SHHHC), four-corner 72286, composition)

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1456, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45580
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1988, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4535, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9B1A

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sraʔ
*so
*so
*so
*so

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *so) : semantic  (hair) + phonetic  (OC *so).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/sio/
Shao
Rongfen
/sio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/suə̆/
Li
Rong
/sio/
Wang
Li
/sĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ sju ›
Old
Chinese
/*C-[s.n]o/
English beard

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 # 1/1
No. 13956
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*so/
Notes

Definitions

  1. beard, whiskers
  2. antennae, feelers
  3. whisker-like

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana ひげ, romaji hige)

  1. mustache; beards; whiskers

Synonyms


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tu, tua)

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