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鬚

鬚

See also: 须

Translingual

Han character

鬚 (radical 190 髟+12, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹竹竹金 (SHHHC), four-corner 72286, composition ⿱髟須)

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1456, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45580
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1988, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4535, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9B1A

Chinese

trad. 鬚
simp. 须

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (須) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
盨 *sraʔ
須 *so
鬚 *so
嬃 *so
蕦 *so

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *so) : semantic 髟 ‎(“hair”) + phonetic 須 ‎(OC *so).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鬚
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)
Character 鬚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C-[s.n]o/
English beard

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 鬚
Reading # 1/1
No. 13956
Phonetic
component		 須
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 須
Old
Chinese		 /*so/
Notes 須轉註俗字

Definitions

鬚

  1. beard, whiskers
  2. antennae, feelers
  3. whisker-like

References

Japanese

Kanji

鬚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

鬚 ‎(hiragana ひげ, romaji hige)

  1. mustache; beards; whiskers

Synonyms

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

鬚 (tu, tua)

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