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須

須

See also: 须

Translingual

Han character

須 (radical 181 頁+3, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹一月金 (HHMBC), four-corner 21286, composition ⿰彡頁)

  1. must, have to, necessary
  2. moment

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1399, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43352
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1916, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4358, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9808

Chinese

trad. 須
simp. 须

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 須
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (須) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
盨 *sraʔ
須 *so
鬚 *so
嬃 *so
蕦 *so

Pictogram (象形) : 彡 ‎(“hair”) + 頁 ‎(“head”) – a head with hair on its side – whiskers. Originally a single picture (oracle, bronze), abstracted in seal script to a compound. .

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 須
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相俞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /suə̆/
Li
Rong		 /sio/
Wang
Li		 /sĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 須 須
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xū xū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sju › ‹ sju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C-[s.n]o/ /*[s]o/
English beard 斯須 a short time

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 須
Reading # 1/1
No. 13955
Phonetic
component		 須
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 須
Old
Chinese		 /*so/

Definitions

須

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

須

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

須 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

須 (tua, tu, dũng)

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