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U+55FD, 嗽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55FD

[U+55FC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+55FE]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口木中人 (RDLO), four-corner 67082, composition)

  1. cough, gargle, clear throat

References

  • KangXi: page 204, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4154
  • Dae Jaweon: page 427, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 674, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+55FD

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sloː, *sloːɡ, *sloɡ
*sloː, *sloːɡs, *srus
*sloː
*sloːʔ, *sloŋʔ
*sloːɡs, *sroːɡ, *sloːɡ
*sloːɡs
*sloːɡs, *sroːɡ
*sloːɡs, *srus
*sreːɡ, *sroɡs, *sroɡs
*sloŋʔ
*sloŋʔ
*sʰroːɡ
*sreːɡ, *sʰloːɡ, *sloːɡ, *l̥ʰoɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sloːɡ
*sʰloɡ
*hljoɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (16) (16) (21)
Final () (137) (3) (10)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () I I II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/səuH/ /suk̚/ /ʃˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/səuH/ /suk̚/ /ʃᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/səuH/ /suk̚/ /ʃɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/səwH/ /səwk̚/ /ʂaɨwk̚/
Li
Rong
/suH/ /suk̚/ /ʃɔk̚/
Wang
Li
/səuH/ /suk̚/ /ʃɔk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sə̯uH/ /suk̚/ /ʂɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sòu su shuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ suwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]ˤok-s/
English cough

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 # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 11864 11878 11884
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sloːɡs/ /*sroːɡ/ /*sloːɡ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. (Wu, Wenzhou) to cough

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana うがい, romaji ugai, historical hiragana うがひ)

  1. gargling

Verb

する (hiragana うがいする, romaji ugai suru, historical hiragana うがひする)

  1. gargle

Conjugation


Korean

Hanja

(su) (hangeul , revised su, McCune-Reischauer su)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(sấu)

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References