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
2. fifth hexagram of the I Ching

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		需

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xū (xu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
    • Wade-Giles: hsü¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi¹
    • Yale: sēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soei¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (需, reconstructed)
Character (需), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 相俞切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/sɨo/	/si̯u/	/sio/	/sio/	/suə̆/	/sĭu/	/sio/

Old Chinese pronunciation (需, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
需								xū								‹ sju ›								/*s-no/								wait
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
需					13966					需					侯					0					須					/*sno/					說文而聲，甲金文象人受淋，爲濡初文，本從大非而，隸變爲需耎而下而

Definitions

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Compounds

• 需求
• 需要

Descendants

• nuò (nuo4)
  • 懦
  • 糯
  • 穤
  • 濡

• rú (ru2)
  • 儒
  • 孺
  • 颥
  • 鱬
  • 醹
  • 襦
  • 臑
  • 燸
  • 嚅
  • 薷

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Japanese

Kanji

需

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: す (su)
• Kan’on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan’yōon: じゅ (ju)
• Kun: ぬれる (nureru), まつ (matsu), もとめる (motomeru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

需 (nhu)

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