鬚

See also: 须
鬚 U+9B1A, 鬚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B1A
← 鬙
[U+9B19]
CJK Unified Ideographs 鬛 →
[U+9B1B]

Translingual

Han character

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

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. 鬚
simp. 须*
alternative forms 須 archaic
䰅
䰑

Glyph origin

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

Originally written 須, 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 鬚
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
Baxter sju
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
seoi1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鬚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xū
Middle
Chinese
‹ sju ›
Old
Chinese
/*C-[s.n]o/
English beard

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 鬚
Reading # 1/1
No. 13956
Phonetic
component
須
Rime
group
侯
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
須
Old
Chinese
/*so/
Notes 須轉註俗字

Definitions

鬚

  1. beard; whisker (Classifier: 條/条 c)
    剃鬚/剃须 [Cantonese]  ―  tai3 sou1 [Jyutping]  ―  to shave one's beard
    虎鬚/虎须  ―  hǔxū  ―  tiger's whiskers
  2. antenna; feeler
  3. whisker-like

Synonyms

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

鬚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. beard

Readings

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

Etymology

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

Korean

Etymology

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

Hanja

Wikisource 鬚 (eumhun 수염 수 (suyeom su))

  1. Hanja form? of 수 (“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

鬚: Hán Nôm readings: tu, tua

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