需

Translingual

Han character

需 (radical 173 雨+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一月一月中 (MBMBL), four-corner 1022₇, composition ⿱雨而)

1. need, require, must

References

• KangXi: page 1373, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42275
• Dae Jaweon: page 1883, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4062, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9700

Descendants

nuò (nuo4) 懦 糯 穤 濡

rú (ru2) 儒 孺 颥 鱬 醹 襦 臑 燸 嚅 薷

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Cantonese

Hanzi

需 (jyutping seoi1, Yale seui1)

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Japanese

Kanji

需 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: じゅ (ju)
• Kun: ぬれる (nureru), まつ (matsu), もとめる (motomeru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

需 (pinyin xū (xu1), Wade-Giles hsü¹)

Compounds

• 需求
• 需要

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Vietnamese

Han character

需 (nhu)