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Translingual
Han character
菽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜火水 (TYFE), four-corner 44947, composition ⿱艹叔)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1040, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31241
- Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3232, character 9
- Unihan data for U+83FD
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 椒
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*ʔsliw
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| 茮
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*ʔsliw
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| 踧
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*l'ɯːwɢ, *ʔslɯwɢ
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| 蔋
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*l'ɯːwɢ
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| 惄
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*nɯːwɢ
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| 戚
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*sʰlɯːwɢ
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| 慼
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*sʰlɯːwɢ
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| 鏚
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*sʰlɯːwɢ
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| 慽
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*sʰlɯːwɢ
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| 磩
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*sʰlɯːwɢ
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| 寂
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*zlɯːwɢ
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| 嘁
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*ʔsluːb
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| 墄
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*sʰlɯːɡ
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| 摵
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*srɯːɡ, *ʔslɯwɢ, *srɯwɢ
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| 督
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*ʔl'uːwɢ
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| 錖
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*ʔl'uːwɢ
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| 裻
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*ʔl'uːwɢ, *sluːwɢ
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| 傶
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*ʔslɯːwɢ
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| 蹙
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*ʔslɯwɢ
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| 槭
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*ʔslɯwɢ
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| 縬
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*ʔslɯwɢ, *ʔsrɯwɢ
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| 顣
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*ʔslɯwɢ
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| 敊
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*l̥ʰɯwɢ
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| 琡
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*ʔljɯwɢ, *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
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| 俶
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*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
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| 埱
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*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
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| 淑
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*ɦljɯwɢ
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| 婌
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*ɦljɯwɢ
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| 尗
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*hljɯwɢ
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| 叔
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*hljɯwɢ
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| 掓
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*hljɯwɢ
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| 菽
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*hljɯwɢ
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| 鮛
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*hljɯwɢ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hljɯwɢ) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 叔 (OC *hljɯwɢ).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nuk (“bean, eye”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Proto-Lolo-Burmese *(s-)nok (“bean”) (whence Burmese ပဲနောက် (pai:nauk, “bean”), Lahu nɔ̂ʔ, etc.), Jingpho nòʔ.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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菽
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shū
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ syuwk ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*s-t(ʰ)uk/
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| English
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pulse, beans
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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菽
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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11761
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Phonetic
component
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尗
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Rime
group
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覺
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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叔
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Old
Chinese
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/*hljɯwɢ/
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| Notes
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同尗
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Definitions
菽
- beans and peas collectively; pulse; legume
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
菽
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
菽 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune–Reischauer suk, Yale swuk)
- beans, peas (literary)
Compounds
- 菽麥不辨 (숙맥불변) : unable to tell bean and barley shoots apart; ignorant of the ways of things
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