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Chinese
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necessary; must; need
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surname; a moment; little while
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| trad. (須臾)
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須
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臾
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| simp. (须臾)
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须
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臾
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Etymology
- “48 minutes”
- Semantic loan from Sanskrit मुहूर्त (muhūrta).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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須
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臾
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| Reading #
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2/2
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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xū
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yú
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ sju ›
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‹ yu ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*o/
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/*(r)o/
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| English
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斯須 a short time
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pull, drag
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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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須
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臾
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| Reading #
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1/1
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2/2
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| No.
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13955
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15823
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Phonetic
component
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須
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臾
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Rime
group
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侯
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侯
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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須
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逾
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Old
Chinese
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/*so/
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/*lo/
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Noun
須臾
- (literary) an instant
- (Buddhism, archaic) A unit of time consisting of one-thirtieth of a day (approximately 48 minutes).
- Synonym: 牟呼栗多 (móuhūlìduō)
Descendants
Japanese
Etymology 1
Appears to be a shift in reading from suyu below, adopting the relatively newer kan'on reading of shu for the first character.
Pronunciation
Noun
須臾 • (shuyu)
- a short amount of time, a moment, an instant
- (uncommon) a very small number, 10-15
Etymology 2
Probably from Middle Chinese 須臾 (MC sju yu). The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.
Ultimately derived as a meaning-based translation of Sanskrit मुहूर्त (muhūrta, “a moment, instant, any short space of time”), applied to the earlier phonetically transcribed term 牟呼栗多 (MC mjuw xu lit ta).
This reading appears to be less common than shuyu above.
Pronunciation
Noun
須臾 • (suyu)
- a short amount of time, a moment, an instant
- (uncommon) a very small number, 10-15
References