叟

See also 叜

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 又 (“hand”) + 火 (“fire”) + 宀 (“roof, house”) – need to carry a light indoor to see – dim vision, old man. Top component (火 under 宀) now abstracted – this occurred in some forms of seal characters – and somewhat resembles 印.

Han character

叟 (radical 29 又+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹X中水 (HXLE), four-corner 7740₇, composition ⿱𦥔又)

1. old man
2. elder

Derived characters

• 嫂, 艘

References

• KangXi: page 166, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3176
• Dae Jaweon: page 378, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 399, character 1
• Unihan data for U+53DF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

叟 (Yale sau2)

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Japanese

Kanji

叟

Readings

• On: そう (sō), しゅう (shū)
• Kun: おきな (okina)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

叟 (pinyin sǒu (sou3), Wade-Giles sou³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

叟 (tẩu)