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Translingual

Han character

(radical 104 +10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 大竹X水 (KHXE), four-corner 00147)

  1. thin, skinny, slender
  2. tight, small
  3. not fertile
  4. steep, sharp
  5. small and forceful
  6. become thin reduce

References

  • KangXi: page 778, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22415
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1188, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2685, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7626

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



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂou⁵¹/
Harbin /ʂou⁵³/
Tianjin /sou⁵³/
Jinan /ʂou²¹/
Qingdao /ʂou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʂou³¹²/
Xi'an /sou⁴⁴/
Xining /sɯ²¹³/
Yinchuan /səu¹³/
Lanzhou /ʂou¹³/
Ürümqi /sɤu²¹³/
Wuhan /səu³⁵/
Chengdu /səu¹³/
Guiyang /səu²¹³/
Kunming /səu²¹²/
Nanjing /səɯ⁴⁴/
Hefei /sɯ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /səu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /səu³⁵/
Hohhot /səu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /sɤ³⁵/
Suzhou /sɤ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /sei⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /sau³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ɕiu³²⁴/
Tunxi /sə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /səu⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /səɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /sɛu⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /seu⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰeu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐu³³/
Nanning /sɐu³³/
Hong Kong /sɐu³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sɔ²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /søy⁴⁴/ 訓讀衰
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /so⁵⁴/
/se⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sou²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /taŋ²¹³/ 訓讀

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (21)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃiuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂuwH/
Li
Rong
/ʃiuH/
Wang
Li
/ʃĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ srjuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*sru-s/
English lean (adj.)

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. 12090
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*srus/

Adjective

  1. skinny

Antonyms

  • (skinny): (pàng, “fat”), (féi, “fat”)

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. thin
  2. emaciated
  3. lean
  4. meager

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. thin
  2. emaciated
  3. lean
  4. meager

Vietnamese

Han character

(sấu, xấu)

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