素

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – hands braiding thread 糸.

In modern form, top component looks like 生 without the diagonal stroke – compare 責, 青.

Han character

素 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手一女戈火 (QMVIF), four-corner 5090₃, composition ⿱龶糸)

1. white (silk)
2. plain
3. vegetarian
4. formerly
5. normally
6. element

See also

• 責 青

References

• KangXi: page 918, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27300
• Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3368, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7D20

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		素

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sù (su⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou³
• Min Nan (POJ): sò͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sù
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: su⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
    • IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sou³
    • Yale: sou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou³
    • IPA ^(key): /sou̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘
    • Tâi-lô: sò͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (素, reconstructed)
Character (素), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 桑故切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/suoH/	/suoH/	/soH/	/suoH/	/sɔH/	/suH/	/soH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (素, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
素								sù								‹ suH ›								/*[s]ˤak-s/								white silk
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
素					12099					素					魚					0					訴					/*saːs/

Compounds

• 护发素 (hùfàsù)
• 素白
• 素不相识
• 素材 (sùcái)
• 素菜
• 素餐
• 素常
• 素淡
• 素服
• 素裹
• 素洁
• 素净
• 素酒
• 素来
• 素昧平生
• 素面
• 素描
• 素朴
• 素气
• 素日
• 素什锦
• 素食 (sùshí)
• 素数
• 素昔
• 素席
• 素性
• 素雅
• 素养
• 素油 (sùyóu)
• 素愿
• 素志
• 素质 (sùzhì)

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Japanese

Kanji

素

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: す (su)
• Kan’on: そ (so)
• Kun: しろぎぬ (shiroginu), きじ (kiji), もと (moto)

Derived terms

• 素通り (すどおり, sudōri)
• 素泊り, 素泊まり (すどまり, sudomari)

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Korean

Hanja

素 (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

素 (tố, tó)

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Compounds

• 生素 (sinh tố)