素

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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Pictogram (象形) – hands braiding thread 糸.

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

Han character [edit]

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

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

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

素 (Yale sou3)

Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

素 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

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

Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

素 (pinyin sù (su4), Wade-Giles su4)

Compounds [edit]

Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

素 (tố, tó)

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