盨

盨 U+76E8, 盨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76E8 ← 盧 [U+76E7] CJK Unified Ideographs 盩 → [U+76E9]

Translingual

Han character

盨 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹金月廿 (HCBT), composition ⿱須皿)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 797, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23058
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2571, character 13
• Unihan data for U+76E8

Chinese

trad.		盨
simp.		𪾔
alternative forms		𥂾

Bronze xu (盨 / 𪾔) from the Western Zhou dynasty

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盨
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions

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

	Old Chinese
盨	*sraʔ
須	*so
鬚	*so
嬃	*so
蕦	*so

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sraʔ): phonetic 須 (OC *so) + semantic 皿 (“vessel”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xǔ (xu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi²
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sy¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syǔ
    • Wade–Giles: hsü³
    • Yale: syǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheu
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seoi²
    • Yale: séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sy¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sṳ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬy⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sy¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬy⁵⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: srjoX

Rime
Character	盨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	踈舉切
Baxter	srjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃiɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃiɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ʃiɔX/
Wang Li	/ʃĭoX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	so2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sraʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	盨
Reading #	1/1
No.	13954
Phonetic component	須
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	所
Old Chinese	/*sraʔ/

Definitions

盨

1. xu (a kind of bronze food vessel used during the Western Zhou dynasty)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “𪾔”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 268.

Japanese

Kanji

盨

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅ (shu)、す (su)、しょ (sho)、そ (so)
• Kun: うつわ (utsuwa)