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需

需

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

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.
 需

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (需) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羺 *noː
獳 *noː
擩 *noːs, *njoʔ, *njos, *njul, *njod
譳 *noːs
懦 *noːls, *njo
糯 *noːls
需 *sno
繻 *sno, *njo
鑐 *sno
儒 *njo
濡 *njo, *noːn
襦 *njo
嚅 *njo
顬 *njo
鱬 *njo
嬬 *njo
臑 *njo
醹 *njo, *njoʔ
蠕 *njo
孺 *njos

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 需
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相俞切
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		 xū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 需
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xū
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 需
Reading # 1/1
No. 13966
Phonetic
component		 需
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 須
Old
Chinese		 /*sno/
Notes 說文而聲，甲金文象人受淋，爲濡初文，本從大非而，隸變爲需耎而下而

Definitions

需

  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

需

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

需 (nhu)

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