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See also:
U+9B1A, 鬚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B1A

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

trad.
simp. *
alternative forms archaic

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *so) : semantic (hair) + phonetic (OC *so, beard).

Originally written , see there for more.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nwat ~ *s-nut (mouth) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • chhiu - vernacular;
  • su/si - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter sju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/sio/
Shao
Rongfen
/sio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/suə̆/
Li
Rong
/sio/
Wang
Li
/sĭu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/si̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
seoi1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ sju ›
Old
Chinese
/*C-o/
English beard

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13956
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*so/
Notes

Definitions

  1. beard; whisker (Classifier: c)
    [Cantonese]  ―  tai3 sou1   ―  to shave one's beard
      ―    ―  tiger's whiskers
  2. antenna; feeler
  3. whisker-like

Synonyms

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. beard

Readings

  • Go-on: (su)
  • Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
  • Kun: ひげ (hige, )

Etymology

Kanji in this term
ひげ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
ひげ
(broadly) facial hair on the upper lip region, the chin, and the cheeks
: beard, goatee (chin hair)
(figurative) whiskers (of animals)
(figurative) antennae (of insects)
(figurative) corn silk
Alternative spellings
,
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

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

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 수염 (suyeom su))

  1. hanja form? of (beard)

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

: Hán Nôm readings: tu, tua

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