須

See also 须

Translingual

simpl.		须
trad.		須

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): 彡 (“hair”) + 頁 (“head”) – a head with hair on its side – whiskers. Originally a single picture (oracle, bronze), abstracted in seal script to a compound.

Han character

須 (radical 181 頁+3, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹一月金 (HHMBC), four-corner 2128₆)

1. must, have to, necessary
2. moment
3. whiskers

Synonyms

• (whiskers): 鬚

Derived characters

• 鬚, 𡡓, 𩓣, 䫠, 䫇, 頿, 盨

Descendants

• ス, 须

References

• KangXi: page 1399, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43352
• Dae Jaweon: page 1916, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4358, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9808

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Cantonese

Hanzi

須 (simplified 须, jyutping seoi1, Yale seui1)

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Japanese

Kanji

須 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅ (shu), す (su)
• Kun: ひげ (hige), もとめる (motomeru), もちいる (mochiiru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

須 (simplified 须, pinyin róng (rong2), xū (xu1), Wade-Giles jung², hsü¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

須 (tu, tua)