壽

See also: 寿

Translingual

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.

Han character

壽 (radical 33 士+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土弓一戈 (GNMI), four-corner 4064₁, composition ⿳⿳土乛工一吋)

1. old age, long life
2. lifespan

Descendants

• 寿

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

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Chinese

		-
trad.		壽
simp.		寿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shòu (shou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): siū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: show
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau⁶
    • Yale: sauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siū
    • Tâi-lô: siū
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiu²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (壽, reconstructed)
Character (壽), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 殖酉切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑɨuX/	/ʑi̯ə̯uX/	/ʑiuX/	/d͡ʑiuX/	/d͡ʑuwX/	/ʑĭəuX/	/d͡ʑiəuX/
Character (壽), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 承呪切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑɨuH/	/ʑi̯ə̯uH/	/ʑiuH/	/d͡ʑiuH/	/d͡ʑuwH/	/ʑĭəuH/	/d͡ʑiəuH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (壽, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
壽								shòu								‹ dzyuwX ›								/*[N-t]uʔ/								longevity
壽								shòu								‹ dzyuwH ›								/*[N-t]uʔ-s/								longevity
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
壽					11707					壽					幽					1					受					/*djuʔ/
壽					11709					壽					幽					1					授					/*djus/

Compounds

• 壽司

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Japanese

Kanji

壽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 寿)

1. longevity, long life
2. congratulations

Readings

• Goon: じゅ (ju)
• Kan’on: しゅう (shū) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’yōon: す (su)
• Kun: ことぶき (kotobuki), ことぶく (寿く, kotobuku), ことほぐ (寿ぐ, kotohogu)
• Nanori: かず (kazu), じ (ji), じゅう (jū) すっ (sut), すみ (sumi), とし (toshi), としかつ (toshikatsu), なが (naga), のぶ (nobu), のり (nori), ひさ (hisa), ひさし (hisashi), やす (yasu), やすし (yasushi)

Usage notes

Seldom used in modern Japanese. See the 寿 entry for further details.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Character

Readings

• Hán Việt: thọ
• Nôm: thọ

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