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需
需
Translingual
Stroke order | |||
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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 |
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Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (需) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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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
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sî
- Min Dong (BUC): sṳ̆
- Min Nan (POJ): su / si
- Wu (Wiktionary): xy (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
- Wade-Giles: hsü1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
- IPA (key): /ɕy⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: seoi1
- Yale: sēui
- Cantonese Pinyin: soey1
- IPA (key): /sɵy̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sî
- Hakka Romanization System: xi´
- Hagfa Pinyim: xi1
- IPA: /ɕi²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̆
- IPA (key): /sy⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su
- Tâi-lô: su
- Phofsit Daibuun: sw
- IPA (Quanzhou): /su³³/
- IPA (Taipei): /su⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴/
- IPA (Xiamen): /su⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si
- Tâi-lô: si
- Phofsit Daibuun: sy
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: xy (T1)
- IPA (key): /ɕy⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
Rime | |
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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) | |
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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; |
Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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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
- to await
- to need; to require
- necessaries; necessities
- should; ought to; must
- fifth hexagram of the I Ching
Compounds
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Japanese
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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