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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 173 +6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一月一月中 (MBMBL), four-corner 10227, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1373, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42275
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1883, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4062, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9700

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*noː
*noː
*noːs, *njoʔ, *njos, *njul, *njod
*noːs
*noːls, *njo
*noːls
*sno
*sno, *njo
*sno
*njo
*njo, *noːn
*njo
*njo
*njo
*njo
*njo
*njo
*njo, *njoʔ
*njo
*njos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sno) : semantic  (rain) + phonetic  (OC *njɯ) – to wait till the rain is over.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/sio/
Shao
Rongfen
/sio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/suə̆/
Li
Rong
/sio/
Wang
Li
/sĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ sju ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-no/
English wait

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. 13966
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sno/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to await
  2. to need; to require
  3. necessaries; necessities
  4. should; ought to; must
  5. fifth hexagram of the I Ching

Compounds

  • 不時之需不时之需
  • 不需要
  • 亟需
  • 供需
  • 供需失衡
  • 供需失調供需失调
  • 需才孔亟
  • 需款孔急
  • 需求 (xūqiú)
  • 需用
  • 需索
  • 需要 (xūyào)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nhu)

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