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收

收

See also: 収

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

收 (radical 66 攴+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女中人大 (VLOK), four-corner 28740, composition ⿰丩攵)

References

  • KangXi: page 468, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13110
  • Dae Jaweon: page 815, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1448, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6536

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 收
alt. forms 収

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 收
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (丩) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
艽 *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
芁 *kriːw
荍 *ɡiw
叫 *kiːws
訆 *kiːws
嘂 *kiːws
收 *qʰljɯw, *qʰljɯws
糾 *kɯw, *krɯwʔ
朻 *kɯw, *krɯw, *krɯwʔ
丩 *kɯw, *krɯw
赳 *krɯw, *krɯwʔ
虬 *ɡrɯw
虯 *ɡrɯw
觓 *ɡrɯw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰljɯw, *qʰljɯws) : semantic 攴 + phonetic 丩 ‎(OC *kɯw, *krɯw) – to arrest.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 收 收
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 書 (26) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 式州切 舒救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕɨu/ /ɕɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiu/ /ɕiuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiəu/ /ɕiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕuw/ /ɕuwH/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiu/ /ɕiuH/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭəu/ /ɕĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ə̯u/ /ɕi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shōu shòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 收
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-kiw/
English collect; harvest

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 收 收
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6921 6922
Phonetic
component		 丩 丩
Rime
group		 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 收 狩
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰljɯw/ /*qʰljɯws/

Definitions

收

  1. to arrest; to detain
  2. to receive; to be given
  3. to accept; to take in; to admit into
  4. to put something away
  5. to collect; to gather
  6. to harvest; to reap
  7. to stop; to put an end to
  8. to restrain; to control
  9. to withdraw; to take back

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

收

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 収)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

收 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

收 (thu, thâu, tho, thò, dũ, thua)

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