授

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 受

There are actually three "hands" in this character, as 爫 also means "hand." As does 又 graphically.

Han character

授 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手月月水 (QBBE), four-corner 5204₇)

1. give to, transmit
2. confer

References

• KangXi: page 436, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12242
• Dae Jaweon: page 786, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1901, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6388

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Cantonese

Hanzi

授 (Yale sau6)

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Japanese

Kanji

授 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: じゅ (ju)
• Kun: さずける (sazukeru), さずかる (sazukaru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

授 (pinyin bào (bao4), fù (fu4), pǒu (pou3), shòu (shou4), Wade-Giles pao⁴, fu⁴, p'ou³, shou⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

授 (thụ, thọ, thò)