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U+53DC, 叜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53DC

[U+53DB]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+53DD]
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Translingual

Han character

(radical 29 +7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十火水 (JFE), composition)

  1. old man

References

  • KangXi: page 166, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3167
  • Dae Jaweon: page 378, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 398, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+53DC

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/səuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/səuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/səuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/səwX/
Li
Rong
/suX/
Wang
Li
/səuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sǒu
Middle
Chinese
‹ suwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-ruʔ/
English old man

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. 12069
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sluːʔ/