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U+55C5, 嗅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C5

[U+55C4]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+55C6]
See also: 口臭

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口竹山大 (RHUK), four-corner 66034, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 201, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4048
  • Dae Jaweon: page 424, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 668, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+55C5

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰljus
*kʰljus, *qʰluʔ
*kʰluʔ
*qʰlus, *qʰluŋs
*qʰlus

Simplified from (); in current form: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰlus, *qʰluŋs) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *kʰljus).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/hiuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/huwH/
Li
Rong
/xiuH/
Wang
Li
/xĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiù
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʰu(ʔ)-s/
English to smell (tr.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 1539 1541
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
𧽒
Old
Chinese
/*qʰlus/ /*qʰluŋs/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to smell; to scent

Compounds

  • 嗅覺器嗅觉器

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. smell (sniff)

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(hu) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khứu)

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