嗽

嗽 U+55FD, 嗽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55FD ← 嗼 [U+55FC] CJK Unified Ideographs 嗾 → [U+55FE]

Translingual

Han character

嗽 (radical 30, 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口木中人 (RDLO), four-corner 6708₂, composition ⿰口欶)

References

• KangXi: page 204, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4154
• Dae Jaweon: page 427, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 674, character 10
• Unihan data for U+55FD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		嗽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (束) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
涑	*sloː, *sloːɡ, *sloɡ
鏉	*sloː, *sloːɡs, *srus
摗	*sloː
駷	*sloːʔ, *sloŋʔ
嗽	*sloːɡs, *sroːɡ, *sloːɡ
瘶	*sloːɡs
欶	*sloːɡs, *sroːɡ
漱	*sloːɡs, *srus
捒	*sreːɡ, *sroɡs, *sroɡs
悚	*sloŋʔ
竦	*sloŋʔ
娕	*sʰroːɡ
梀	*sreːɡ, *sʰloːɡ, *sloːɡ, *l̥ʰoɡ
速	*sloːɡ
餗	*sloːɡ
殐	*sloːɡ
遬	*sloːɡ
蔌	*sloːɡ
樕	*sloːɡ
藗	*sloːɡ
誎	*sʰloɡ
束	*hljoɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sòu (sou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sok³, sau³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhu̍k
• Min Nan (POJ): sò͘ / sàu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: sòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄡˋ
    • Wade–Giles: sou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sow
    • IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sok³, sau³
    • Yale: sok, sau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sok⁸, sau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sog³, seo³
    • IPA ^(key): /sɔːk̚³/, /sɐu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhu̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: cug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cug⁶
    • IPA: /t͡sʰuk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘
    • Tâi-lô: sòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sox
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàu
    • Tâi-lô: sàu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saux
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /saʊ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /saʊ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /saʊ¹¹/

Note:

• sò͘ - literary;
• sàu - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /səu^H/, /suk̚/, /ʃˠʌk̚/▼

Rime
Character	嗽	嗽	嗽
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	屋 (3)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I	II
Fanqie	蘇奏切	桑谷切	所角切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/səuH/	/suk̚/	/ʃˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/səuH/	/suk̚/	/ʃᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/səuH/	/suk̚/	/ʃɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/səwH/	/səwk̚/	/ʂaɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/suH/	/suk̚/	/ʃɔk̚/
Wang Li	/səuH/	/suk̚/	/ʃɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/sə̯uH/	/suk̚/	/ʂɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sòu	su	shuo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤok-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sloːɡs/, /*sroːɡ/, /*sloːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嗽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sòu
Middle Chinese	‹ suwH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˤok-s/
English	cough
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	嗽	嗽	嗽
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	11864	11878	11884
Phonetic component	束	束	束
Rime group	竇	屋	屋
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	瘶	朔	速
Old Chinese	/*sloːɡs/	/*sroːɡ/	/*sloːɡ/
Notes		同欶

Definitions

嗽

1. to cough

Compounds

• 乾嗽／干嗽 (gānsòu)

• 咳嗽 (késou)

• 散嗽

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Japanese

Kanji

嗽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): そく (soku), しゅう (shū), そう (sō)
• Kun: うがい (ugai), すう (suu), くちすすぐ (kuchisusugu)

Noun

嗽 (hiragana うがい, rōmaji ugai, historical hiragana うがひ)

1. gargling

Verb

嗽する (hiragana うがいする, rōmaji ugai suru, historical hiragana うがひする)

1. gargle

Conjugation

Conjugation of "嗽する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	嗽し	うがいし	ugai shi
Continuative (連用形)	嗽し	うがいし	ugai shi
Terminal (終止形)	嗽する	うがいする	ugai suru
Attributive (連体形)	嗽する	うがいする	ugai suru
Hypothetical (仮定形)	嗽すれ	うがいすれ	ugai sure
Imperative (命令形)	嗽せよ¹ 嗽しろ²	うがいせよ¹ うがいしろ²	ugai seyo¹ ugai shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	嗽される	うがいされる	ugai sareru
Causative	嗽させる 嗽さす	うがいさせる うがいさす	ugai saseru ugai sasu
Potential	嗽できる	うがいできる	ugai dekiru
Volitional	嗽しよう	うがいしよう	ugai shiyō
Negative	嗽しない	うがいしない	ugai shinai
Negative continuative	嗽せず	うがいせず	ugai sezu
Formal	嗽します	うがいします	ugai shimasu
Perfective	嗽した	うがいした	ugai shita
Conjunctive	嗽して	うがいして	ugai shite
Hypothetical conditional	嗽すれば	うがいすれば	ugai sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

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Korean

Hanja

嗽 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嗽 (sấu)

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References

• Nom Foundation