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+7, 9 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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		叟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sǒu (sou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: sou³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soou
    • IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau²
    • Yale: sáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau²
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (叟, reconstructed)
Character (叟), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 蘇后切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/səuX/	/sə̯uX/	/suX/	/səuX/	/səwX/	/səuX/	/səuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (叟, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
叟								sǒu								‹ suwX ›								/*s-ruʔ (dialect: > *sruʔ > MC srjuwX > sruwX > suwX)/								old man
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
叟					12070					叟					幽					1					叜					/*suːʔ/					同叜隸變

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Japanese

Kanji

叟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

叟 (tẩu)

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