澍

澍 U+6F8D, 澍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F8D ← 澌 [U+6F8C] CJK Unified Ideographs 澎 → [U+6F8E]

Translingual

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjos, *djos): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 尌 (OC *djos).

Han character

澍 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水土廿戈 (EGTI), four-corner 3410₀, composition ⿰氵尌)

Derived characters

• 𩆩

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 652, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18329
• Dae Jaweon: page 1062, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1735, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6F8D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		澍

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shù (shu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shù
    • Wade–Giles: shu⁴
    • Yale: shù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: syu⁶
    • Yale: syuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sū
    • Tâi-lô: sū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: su
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /su³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su³³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyuH

Rime
Character	澍
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	常句切
Baxter	dzyuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑioH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑuə̆H/
Li Rong	/ʑioH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	澍
Reading #	2/2
No.	17649
Phonetic component	壴
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	樹
Old Chinese	/*djos/

Definitions

澍

1. timely rain

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 澍 – see 注 (“to pour into; to fill; to concentrate; to pay attention; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 注).

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		澍
alternative forms		泚

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhū / chhǔ

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhū
    • Tâi-lô: tshū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhu
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰu³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhǔ
    • Tâi-lô: tshǔ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰu²²/

Definitions

澍

1. (Hokkien) to spray; to sprinkle; to squirt; to spout (from a hole, a vein, or a pipe)

   Synonyms: 𫝺, 噴 / 喷, 濺 / 溅, 霧 / 雾, 浡, 掖

   澍芳水 [Hokkien]  ―  chhū phang-chúi [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to spray perfume

   澍藥仔／澍药仔 [Hokkien]  ―  chhū io̍h-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to spray external medicine or pesticide

Usage notes

• 澍 and 𫝺 usually used when the diameter of the spraying device is smaller, the area sprayed is smaller, or the duration of the spraying is shorter; while 噴 / 喷 and 濺 / 溅 are usually used in opposite situations or in general sense. But actual usage varies from person to person.
• 霧 / 雾 and 浡 refer specifically to scatter tiny water droplets in the air, or squirting liquid from one's mouth.
• 掖 refers specifically to sprinkle liquid, seeds or crumbs from top to bottom. For example, when expressing "sprinkling seeds", one should say 掖種／掖种.

Compounds

• 澍水

References

• “Entry #11185”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “泚”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• 周长楫 [Zhou, Changji], editor (2006), “澍 [tshu6, tshu4]”, in 闽南方言大词典 MINNAN FANGYAN DA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Southern Min dialects] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Fuzhou: 福建人民出版社 [Fujian People's Publishing House], →ISBN, page 35.

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.		澍
alternative forms		噓／嘘 (si)

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sū / sǐ / si

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sū
    • Tâi-lô: sū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: su
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sǐ
    • Tâi-lô: sǐ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /si²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Taipei, Yilan, Sanxia, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Kinmen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si
    • Tâi-lô: si
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Taipei, Yilan, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Kinmen): /si⁴⁴/

Definitions

澍

1. (Hokkien) to urge a baby to urinate

   澍尿 [Hokkien]  ―  sū liō [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to urge a baby to pee

References

• 周长楫 [Zhou, Changji], editor (2006), “澍 [su6, si4, si1]”, in 闽南方言大词典 MINNAN FANGYAN DA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Southern Min dialects] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Fuzhou: 福建人民出版社 [Fujian People's Publishing House], →ISBN, page 35.

Japanese

Kanji

澍

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅ (shu)、じゅ (ju)
• Kun: うるおう (uruō)

Korean

Hanja

澍 (eum 주 (ju))

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Vietnamese

Han character

澍: Hán Nôm readings: chú

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References

• Nom Foundation