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休
休
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Han character
休 (radical 9 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人木 (OD), four-corner 24290, composition ⿰亻木)
References
- KangXi: page 96, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 440
- Dae Jaweon: page 203, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 117, character 18
- Unihan data for U+4F11
Chinese
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休 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 休
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (休) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 茠 | *qʰuː |
| 烋 | *qʰruː, *qʰru |
| 恘 | *kʰu |
| 休 | *qʰu |
| 貅 | *qʰu |
| 咻 | *qʰu, *qʰoʔ |
| 庥 | *qʰu |
| 鵂 | *qʰu |
| 髤 | *qʰu |
| 髹 | *qʰu |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 人 (“man”) + 木 (“tree”) – a man leaning against a tree, resting.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡ
- Wade-Giles: hsiu1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiou
- IPA (key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: jau1
- Yale: yāu
- Cantonese Pinyin: jau1
- IPA (key): /jɐu̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hiû
- Hakka Romanization System: hiu´
- Hagfa Pinyim: hiu1
- IPA: /hi̯u²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiu
- Tâi-lô: hiu
- Phofsit Daibuun: hiw
- IPA (Xiamen): /hiu⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hiu³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiu⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /hiu⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiu⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: hiun1 / hiu1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hiuⁿ / hiu
- IPA (key): /hĩũ³³/, /hiu³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 休 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /ɕiou⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /ɕiou⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /ɕiou²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /ɕiou²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /ɕiou²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ɕiou²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /ɕiou²¹/ | |
| Xining | /ɕiɯ⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ɕiəu⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ɕiou³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ɕiɤu⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /ɕiəu⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /ɕiəu⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /ɕiəu⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /ɕiəu⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /ɕiəɯ³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /ɕiɯ²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ɕiəu¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /ɕiəu¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /ɕiəu³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɕiɤ⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /ɕiɤ⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɕiø³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ɕau³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɕiu³¹/ |
| Tunxi |
/siu¹¹/ ～息 /ɕiu¹¹/ ～寧 |
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| Xiang | Changsha | /ɕiəu³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɕiəɯ³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /ɕiu⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /hiu⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | /hiu²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /jɐu⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /jɐu⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /jɐu⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /hiu⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /hieu⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /xiu⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /hĩu³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /hiu²³/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 休 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 許尤切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/hɨu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/hiu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/xiəu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/huw/ |
| Li Rong |
/xiu/ |
| Wang Li |
/xĭəu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/xi̯ə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xiū |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
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| Character | 休 | 休 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
xiū | xiū |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ xjuw › | ‹ xjuw › |
| Old Chinese |
/*qʰ(r)u/ | /*qʰ(r)u/ |
| English | rest (v.) | blessing |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 休 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13919 |
| Phonetic component |
休 |
| Rime group |
幽 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
休 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qʰu/ |
Definitions
休
- to rest; to relax
- joyous; happy
- to stop; to cease
- to retire
- (historical) to cast off one’s wife and send her home; to divorce one's wife
- do not; don't
- A surname.
Compounds
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Japanese
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Kanji
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Korean
Hanja
休 • (hyu)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 휴 (revised: hyu, McCune-Reischauer: hyu)
- Name (hangeul): 쉴()
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