壽
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See also 寿
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[edit] Translingual
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| 壽 |
[edit] Etymology
Ideogram (指事) – an old man kneeling and praying for long life.
A rather complex character; top cognate to 生, bottom 口 + 寸. Middle originally similar to older form of 舛, now simplified to 工.
[edit] Han character
壽 (radical 33 士+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土弓一戈 (GNMI), four-corner 40641)
[edit] Descendants
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 244, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5672
- Dae Jaweon: page 484, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 483, character 10
- Unihan data for U+58FD
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
壽 (simplified 寿, Yale sau6)
[edit] Japanese
[edit] Kanji
壽
[edit] Readings
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
壽 (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Hanzi
壽 (simplified 寿, pinyin shòu (shou4), Wade-Giles shou4)
[edit] Compounds
[edit] Middle Chinese
[edit] Han character
壽 (zhiòu, zhiǒu)
[edit] Vietnamese
[edit] Han character
壽 (thọ)
