梳

梳 U+68B3, 梳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68B3 ← 梲 [U+68B2] CJK Unified Ideographs 梴 → [U+68B4]

Translingual

Han character

梳 (radical 75 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木卜戈山 (DYIU), four-corner 4091₃, composition ⿰木㐬)

References

• KangXi: page 531, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14886
• Dae Jaweon: page 919, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1219, character 6
• Unihan data for U+68B3

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		梳

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (疋) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
疋	*ŋraːʔ, *sŋra, *sŋraʔ
蝑	*sŋas, *sŋa
壻	*sŋeːs
婿	*sŋeːs
胥	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
稰	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
楈	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
諝	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
湑	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
揟	*sŋa
醑	*sŋaʔ
糈	*sŋaʔ, *sŋraʔ
楚	*sŋ̥ʰraʔ, *sŋ̥ʰras
礎	*sŋ̥ʰraʔ
憷	*sŋ̥ʰraʔ
齼	*sŋ̥ʰraʔ
濋	*sŋ̥ʰraʔ
儊	*sŋ̥ʰras
綀	*sŋra
疎	*sŋra
疏	*sŋra, *sŋras
蔬	*sŋra
梳	*sŋra

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): so¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ̂
• Min Nan (POJ): so͘ / soe / se

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: shu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: so¹
    • Yale: sō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: so¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: so¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sɔː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ̂
    • Hakka Romanization System: sii´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: si¹
    • IPA: /sɨ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so͘
    • Tâi-lô: soo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soe
    • Tâi-lô: sue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soef
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sue³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sue⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se
    • Tâi-lô: se
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sef
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /se⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /se⁴⁴/

Note:

• so͘ - literary;
• soe/se - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /ʃɨʌ/▼

Rime
Character	梳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	所葅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂɨə̆/
Li Rong	/ʃiɔ/
Wang Li	/ʃĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shū

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*sra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋra/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	梳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ srjo ›
Old Chinese	/*sra/
English	comb
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	梳
Reading #	1/1
No.	11792
Phonetic component	疋
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*sŋra/

Definitions

梳

1. comb
2. brush

Compounds

• 妝梳／妆梳
• 插梳
• 梳妝／梳妆 (shūzhuāng)
• 梳妝臺／梳妆台 (shūzhuāngtái)
• 梳子 (shūzi)
• 梳櫳／梳栊

• 梳洗 (shūxǐ)
• 梳理 (shūlǐ)
• 梳篦
• 梳裹
• 梳辮子／梳辫子 (shūbiànzi)

• 梳頭／梳头 (shūtóu)
• 油木梳
• 爬梳
• 爬梳剔抉
• 過木梳／过木梳

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Japanese

Kanji

梳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そ (so)
• Kun: くしけずる (kushikezuru), すく (suku)

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Korean

Hanja

梳 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

1. comb, brush

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Vietnamese

Han character

梳 (sơ)

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