髓

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See also: 膸
髓 U+9AD3, 髓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AD3
← 髒
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 體 →

Translingual

Han character

髓 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 月月卜大月 (BBYKB), four-corner 74232, composition ⿰骨遀)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1451, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45289
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1977, character 41
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4418, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+9AD3

Chinese

trad. 髓
simp. # 髓
alternative forms 髄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鬌 *ʔl'oːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *l'ol
隋 *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *ljol
墮 *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *hlol
媠 *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːls
橢 *l̥ʰoːlʔ
嫷 *l̥ʰoːls, *l'oːlʔ
毻 *l̥ʰoːls, *l̥ʰoːds
堶 *l'oːl
憜 *l'oːlʔ
惰 *l'oːlʔ, *l'oːls
嶞 *l'oːlʔ
髓 *slolʔ
瀡 *slolʔ, *slols
隨 *ljol
隓 *hlol
隳 *hlol
撱 *lolʔ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *suj (“marrow”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chhé/chhér/chhóe - vernacular;
  • súi/chhúi - literary.
Rime
Character 髓
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 支 (12)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息委切
Baxter sjweX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/siuᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sʷiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sjuɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/swiə̆X/
Li
Rong 		/siueX/
Wang
Li 		/sǐweX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/swie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		suǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		seoi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 髓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		suǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sjweX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s-lojʔ/
English marrow

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 髓
Reading # 1/1
No. 5433
Phonetic
component 		隓
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		髓
Old
Chinese 		/*slolʔ/

Definitions

髓

  1. bone marrow
  2. pith; medulla
  3. essence; substance

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

髄

Kyūjitai

髓

Kanji

髓

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 髄)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): ずい (zui)、すい (sui)
  • Kun: ずい (zui)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 髓 (MC sjweX). Recorded as Middle Korean 슈〯 (syǔ) (Yale: syu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

髓 (eumhun 뼛골 수 (ppyeotgol su))

  1. hanja form? of 수 (“bone marrow”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

髓: Hán Nôm readings: tủy/tuỷ

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