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受

受

受 U+53D7, 受
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53D7
← 取
[U+53D6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 变 →
[U+53D8]

Translingual

Han character

受 (radical 29 又+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月月水 (BBE), four-corner 20407, composition ⿳爫冖又)

References

  • KangXi: page 166, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3159
  • Dae Jaweon: page 377, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 396, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+53D7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 受

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 受
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (受) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
受 *tuːs, *djuʔ
綬 *djuʔ, *djus
授 *djus

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 爪 ‎(“hand”) + 凡 ‎(“plate”) + 又 ‎(“hand”) - to hand over.

凡 in the middle was corrupted into 舟 (OC *tjɯw), which acted as a phonetic component. It has been simplified to 冖 since the seal script.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 受
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 殖酉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑuwX/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiuX/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 受
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shòu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]uʔ/
English receive

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 受 受
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11673 11674
Phonetic
component		 受 受
Rime
group		 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 到 受
Old
Chinese		 /*tuːs/ /*djuʔ/
Notes 姓，下原誤作丈，依集韻校改

Definitions

受

  1. to receive; to accept
  2. to bear; to stand

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

受

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

受 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su)

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Vietnamese

Han character

受 (thụ, thọ)

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