恤

See also: 賉, 卹, and 䘏

Translingual

Han character

恤 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 心竹月廿 (PHBT), four-corner 9701₀, composition ⿰忄血)

1. show pity
2. relieve, help

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 385, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10583
• Dae Jaweon: page 715, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2296, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6064

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		恤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 恤
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (血) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
侐	*qʰʷiɡs, *qʰʷɯɡ
血	*qʰʷiːɡ
恤	*sqʰʷiɡ
卹	*sqʰʷiɡ
賉	*sqʰʷiɡ
欰	*sqʰʷiɡ
洫	*qʰʷɯɡ
殈	*qʰʷeːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xù (xu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seot¹
• Northern Min (KCR): sṳ̆
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sut

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sug⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syù
    • Wade–Giles: hsü⁴
    • Yale: syù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuh
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seot¹
    • Yale: sēut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soet⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêd¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵt̚⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sṳ̆
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sy²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sut
    • Tâi-lô: sut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sud
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sut̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sut̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sut̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sut̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sut̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sug⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: suk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /suk̚²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 恤
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕy⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ɕy⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕy⁵³/
	Jinan	/ɕy²¹³/
	Qingdao	/ɕy⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ɕy²⁴/
	Xi'an	/ɕy²¹/
	Xining	/ɕy⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕy¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕy¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕy²¹³/
	Wuhan	/ɕy³⁵/
	Chengdu	/ɕye³¹/ /ɕy³¹/
	Guiyang	/ɕie²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕiɛ³¹/
	Nanjing	/sy⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ɕyəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕyəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/ɕyʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕyəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕioʔ⁵/ /ɕyɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/siəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/sz̩ʷəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/ɕy²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕyeʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/ɕy⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/si²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/si⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/sit̚¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/søt̚⁵/
	Nanning	/ɬɐt̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/søt̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/sut̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/souʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/sy²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/suk̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/se⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: swit

Rime
Character	恤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	辛聿切
Baxter	swit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swit̚/
Li Rong	/siuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭuĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seot1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-[m]i[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷiɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	恤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xù
Middle Chinese	‹ swit ›
Old Chinese	/*s-[m]i[t]/
English	anxiety
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	恤
Reading #	1/1
No.	14099
Phonetic component	血
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	卹
Old Chinese	/*sqʰʷiɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 恤

1. to misgive
2. to sympathize
3. to compensate

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Japanese

Kanji

恤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅち (shuchi)
• Kan-on: しゅつ (shutsu)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅつ (jutsu)
• Kun: あわれむ (awaremu, 恤れむ); うれえる (ureeru, 恤える); めぐむ (megumu, 恤む)

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Korean

Hanja

恤 • (hyul) (hangeul 휼, revised hyul, McCune–Reischauer hyul, Yale hyul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 恤 (tuất)

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References

• Nom Foundation