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酸

酸

See also: 痠

Translingual

Han character

酸 (radical 164 酉+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一田戈金水 (MWICE), four-corner 13647)

References

  • KangXi: page 1283, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39871
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1783, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3585, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9178

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 酸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (允) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唆 *sloːl
梭 *sloːl
葰 *sloːlʔ, *sroːlʔ, *slul
誜 *sroːls
朘 *ʔsluːl
捘 *ʔsluːls, *ʔsluːns, *sʰlun
荾 *slul
酸 *sloːn
狻 *sloːn
痠 *sloːn
鋑 *ʔslon
脧 *ʔslon
悛 *sʰlon
吮 *zlonʔ, *ɦljunʔ
萒 *ɡronʔ, *lonʔ
沇 *lonʔ
抁 *lonʔ
馻 *lonʔ, *lunʔ
兖 *lonʔ
渷 *lonʔ
兗 *lonʔ
焌 *ʔsluːns, *ʔsluns, *sʰlud
允 *lunʔ
狁 *lunʔ
玧 *lunʔ
俊 *ʔsluns
晙 *ʔsluns, *sluns
餕 *ʔsluns
畯 *ʔsluns
駿 *ʔsluns
竣 *sʰlun
皴 *sʰlun
逡 *sʰlun
踆 *sʰlun
夋 *sʰlun
埈 *sluns
陖 *sluns
鵕 *sluns
浚 *sluns
峻 *sluns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sloːn) : semantic 酉 + phonetic 夋 ‎(OC *sʰlun).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 酸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 素官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /suɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /suɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /swan/
Li
Rong		 /suɑn/
Wang
Li		 /suɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /suɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 suān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 酸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 suān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ swan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ˤor/
English sour

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 酸
Reading # 1/1
No. 16434
Phonetic
component		 允
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 酸
Old
Chinese		 /*sloːn/

Definitions

酸

  1. sour; tart
  2. sour taste; sourness
  3. sick at heart; grieved; sad
  4. Alternative form of 痠 (“aching; sore; stiff”).
  5. stingy; miserly
  6. narrow-minded; pedantic
  7. spoiled; rancid
  8. (chemistry) acid

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

酸

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
酸
さん
Grade: 5
on'yomi

Noun

酸 ‎(hiragana さん, romaji san)

  1. (chemistry) acid

Korean

Hanja

酸 • ‎(san) (hangeul 산, revised san, McCune-Reischauer san, Yale san)

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Vietnamese

Han character

酸 (toan)

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