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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手竹X水 (QHXE), four-corner 57047, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 447, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12486
  • Dae Jaweon: page 797, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1919, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+641C

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*suːw
*suːw, *sɯːw
*suːwʔ
*sɯːw, *suːʔ
*slɯːwʔ, *suːʔ, *suːs, *srɯwɢ
*sluːʔ
*suːʔ
*suːʔ
*suːʔ, *sru
*suʔ, *sru
*sʰrus
餿 *sru
*sru
*sru
*sru, *sruʔ
*sru
*sru
*sru
*sru, *sro
*sru
*srus

Pronunciation



Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sōu
Middle
Chinese
‹ srjuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*sru/
English search

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. 12079
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
𢯱
Old
Chinese
/*sru/

Definitions

  1. search, seek ()
  2. investigate

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(su) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(sưu, xâu)

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