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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 187 +10, 20 strokes, cangjie input 尸火水戈戈 (SFEII), four-corner 77336, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1443, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44935
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1967, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4567, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+9A37

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsuːʔ
*sʰuːʔ, *suː
*suː
*suː
*suː
*suː
*suː
*suːs
*ʔsruːʔ
*suʔ
*sʰɯːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɑu/
Pan
Wuyun
/sɑu/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/saw/
Li
Rong
/sɑu/
Wang
Li
/sɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ saw ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]ˤu/
English disturb

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. 16554
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*suː/

Definitions

  1. harass, bother, annoy, disturb, agitate
  2. sad, grieved

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(so) (hangeul , revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tao)

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