岫

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岫	U+5CAB, 岫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CAB

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

岫 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 山中田 (ULW), four-corner 2576₀, composition ⿰山由)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 309, character 22
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7991
Dae Jaweon: page 609, character 18
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 766, character 14
Unihan data for U+5CAB

Chinese

trad.		岫
simp. ^#		岫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 岫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (由) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
袖	*ljɯwɢs
岫	*ljɯwɢs
牰	ljɯwɢs, lɯwɢs
抽	*l̥ʰɯw
妯	l̥ʰɯw, l'ɯwɢ
紬	*l'ɯw
怞	*l'ɯw
鮋	l'ɯw, ɦljɯw, *lɯw
菗	*rlɯw
宙	*l'ɯwɢs
胄	*l'ɯwɢs
冑	*l'ɯwɢs
伷	*l'ɯwɢs
駎	*l'ɯwɢs
油	lɯw, lɯwɢs
由	*lɯw
蚰	*lɯw
秞	*lɯw
邮	*lɯw
釉	*lɯwɢs
柚	lɯwɢs, l'ɯwɢ
鼬	*lɯwɢs
苖	l'ɯːwɢ, l̥ʰɯwɢ
笛	*l'ɯːwɢ
迪	*l'ɯːwɢ
頔	*l'ɯːwɢ
軸	*l'ɯwɢ
舳	*l'ɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ljɯwɢs) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 由 (OC *lɯw).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiù (xiu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zau⁶
Eastern Min (BUC): sêu
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): siu⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): siū

(Teochew, Peng'im): siu⁷

(Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): xiu¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiù
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siòu
  - Wade–Giles: hsiu⁴
  - Yale: syòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiow
  - Palladius: сю (sju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zau⁶
  - Yale: jauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzau⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: zeo⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯²²/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sêu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛu²⁴²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: siu⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siū
  - Tâi-lô: siū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siu
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siu²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siu⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siu²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siu³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: siu⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siū
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siu¹¹/
- (Leizhou)
  - Leizhou Pinyin: xiu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /siu³⁵/

Middle Chinese: zjuwH

Rime
Character	岫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似祐切
Baxter	zjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ziu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ziəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zuw^H/
Li Rong	/ziu^H/
Wang Li	/zĭəu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯ə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ljɯwɢs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	岫
Reading #	1/1
No.	15511
Phonetic component	由
Rime group	奧
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	岫
Old Chinese	/*ljɯwɢs/

Definitions

岫

mountain peak
cave; cavern
(Southern Min) nest, den or lair of animals

Compounds

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “岫”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 267.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 岫

岫

(Hyōgai kanji)

cave
summit

Readings

Go-on: じゅ (ju)
Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
Kun: くき (kuki, 岫)、みさき (misaki, 岫)、みね (mine, 岫)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
岫
くき Hyōgai
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.^[1]

Noun

岫(くき) • (kuki)

(archaic or obsolete) cave
(archaic or obsolete) summit, mountaintop

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
岫
しゅう Hyōgai
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 岫 (MC zjuwH).

Noun

岫(しゅう) • (shū)

(rare) cave

References

^ “岫”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006

Korean

Hanja

岫 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su)

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