秀

Translingual

Etymology

禾 + 乃

Han character

秀 (radical 115 禾+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木弓竹尸 (HDNHS), four-corner 2022₇)

1. ear of grain
2. flowering, luxuriant
3. refined, elegant, graceful

Derived characters

• 誘 (诱)

References

• KangXi: page 849, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24911
• Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2589, character 4
• Unihan data for U+79C0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

秀 (Yale sau3)

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Japanese

Kanji

秀 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: ひいでる (hiideru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

秀 (pinyin xiù (xiu4), Wade-Giles hsiu⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

秀 (tú)