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絮

絮

Translingual

Han character

絮 (radical 120 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女口女戈火 (VRVIF), four-corner 46903)

  1. waste cotton, raw silk or cotton
  2. (less commonly) catkin or ament

References

  • KangXi: page 923, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27443
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1358, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3400, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7D6E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 絮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (女) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
拿 *rnaː
拏 *rnaː
詉 *rnaː
蒘 *rnaː, *na
笯 *rnaː, *naː, *naːs
挐 *rnaː, *na
絮 *rnaːs, *nas, *snas, *nas
呶 *rnaːw
怓 *rnaːw
帑 *n̥ʰaːŋʔ, *naː
奴 *naː
砮 *naː, *naːʔ
駑 *naː
孥 *naː
努 *naːʔ
弩 *naːʔ
怒 *naːʔ, *naːs
袽 *na
帤 *na
女 *naʔ, *nas
籹 *naʔ
恕 *hnjas
如 *nja, *njas
茹 *nja, *njaʔ, *njas
洳 *nja, *njas
鴽 *nja
蕠 *nja
汝 *njaʔ
肗 *njaʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 絮 絮 絮 絮
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 娘 (12) 徹 (10) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 魚 (22) 魚 (22) 魚 (22) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division (等) III III III II
Fanqie 息據切 尼據切 抽據切 乃亞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɨʌH/ /ɳɨʌH/ /ʈʰɨʌH/ /nˠaH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siɔH/ /ɳiɔH/ /ʈʰiɔH/ /nᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /siɔH/ /niɔH/ /ȶʰiɔH/ /naH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɨə̆H/ /ɳɨə̆H/ /ʈʰɨə̆H/ /naɨH/
Li
Rong		 /siɔH/ /niɔH/ /ȶʰiɔH/ /naH/
Wang
Li		 /sĭoH/ /nĭoH/ /ȶʰĭoH/ /naH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯woH/ /ni̯woH/ /ȶʰi̯woH/ /naH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xù nǜ chù nà
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 絮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjoH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-na-s/
English raw silk, floss

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 絮 絮 絮 絮
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 9596 9619 9620 9621
Phonetic
component		 女 女 女 女
Rime
group		 魚 魚 魚 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 䏧 女 絮 絮
Old
Chinese		 /*rnaːs/ /*nas/ /*snas/ /*nas/

Definitions

絮

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Compounds

  • 叨叨絮絮
  • 吐絮
  • 撏綿扯絮／挦绵扯絮
  • 故絮
  • 敗絮／败絮 (bàixù)
  • 春心飛絮／春心飞絮
  • 柳絮 (liǔxù)
  • 棉絮
  • 漂絮
  • 煩絮／烦絮
  • 粘花惹絮
  • 絮叨 (xùdāo)
  • 絮搭
  • 絮煩／絮烦
  • 絮紙／絮纸
  • 絮絮
  • 絮絮不休
  • 絮絮叨叨 (xùxudāodāo)
  • 絮絮聒聒
  • 絮聒 (xùguā)
  • 絮語／絮语
  • 絮鍋兒／絮锅儿
  • 綿絮／绵絮
  • 聒絮
  • 花絮
  • 花絮新聞／花絮新闻
  • 花花絮絮
  • 蘆絮／芦絮
  • 蘭因絮果／兰因絮果
  • 詠絮／咏絮
  • 話休絮煩／话休絮烦
  • 遊絲飛絮／游丝飞絮
  • 隻雞絮酒／只鸡絮酒
  • 霑泥絮
  • 頭絮兒／头絮儿
  • 飛絮／飞絮 (fēixù)

References

Japanese

Kanji

絮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

絮 • ‎(seo, yeo) (hangeul 서, 여, revised seo, yeo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, yŏ, Yale se, ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

絮 (nhứ, tự)

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