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殊

殊

Translingual

Han character

殊 (radical 78 歹+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一弓竹十木 (MNHJD), four-corner 15290, composition ⿰歹朱)

  1. (classical) to decapitate; to behead, to cut off
  2. special, exceptional, different, uncommon

Synonyms

  • (decapitate): 刎
  • (special, different): 特, 異

Antonyms

References

  • KangXi: page 580, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16451
  • Dae Jaweon: page 972, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1385, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+6B8A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 殊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咮 *tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
株 *to
誅 *to
邾 *to
鼄 *to
跦 *to
袾 *to, *tʰjo
鴸 *to, *tjo
蛛 *to
殊 *to, *djo
趎 *do
珠 *tjo
朱 *tjo
侏 *tjo
絑 *tjo
祩 *tjo, *tjos
鮢 *tjo
硃 *tjo
姝 *tʰjo
銖 *djo
茱 *djo
洙 *djo
陎 *djo

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 殊
Mandarin Beijing /ʂu⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʂu²⁴/
/ʂu⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰu⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁴²/
Qingdao /ʃu²¹³/
/tʃʰu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁴²/
Xi'an /fu²⁴/
Xining /fv̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʂu⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /fu³¹/
Ürümqi /ʂu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /su⁵⁵/
Chengdu /su⁵⁵/
Guiyang /su⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʂu⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰu²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /su¹¹/
Pingyao /sz̩ʷ¹³/
Hohhot /su³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zz̩²³/
Suzhou /zz̩ʷ¹³/
Hangzhou /zz̩ʷ¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩³¹/
Hui Shexian /ɕyʔ²¹/
/t͡ɕʰyʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ɕy¹³/
Xiangtan /ɕy¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ɕy⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /su¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʃu¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sy²¹/
Nanning /sy²¹/
Hong Kong /sy²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /su³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sy⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sy²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /su⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡si²³/
Rime
Character 殊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 市朱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑuə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ʑio/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 殊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyu ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]o/
English die; different

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 殊 殊
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17565 17580
Phonetic
component		 朱 朱
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 株 殊
Old
Chinese		 /*to/ /*djo/
Notes 原作列，周校爲殊，與其或體從朱從戈合

Definitions

殊

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Japanese

Kanji

殊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Definitions

  1. (ころす、たつ): decapitate
  2. (ことなる): special, exceptional, uncommon

Compounds

  • (decapitate): 殊死
  • (special): 特殊, 殊勲

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

殊 (thùa, thù, thò)

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