秀
Translingual
Han character
秀 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木弓竹尸 (HDNHS), four-corner 20227, composition ⿱禾乃)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 849, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24911
- Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 16
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2589, character 4
- Unihan data for U+79C0
Chinese
trad. | 秀 | |
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simp. # | 秀 |
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 秀 | ||
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Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
From an earlier form 𥝙, attested in the stone drum inscriptions (石鼓文 (shígǔwén)) from the Warring States period.
Shuowen states that this character was tabooed at that time (2nd century AD) but did not elaborate on its origin, due to it being the birth name of Emperor Guangwu of Han.
Xu Kai ((deprecated template usage) 徐鍇), the author of (deprecated template usage) 《說文解字繫傳》 (10th century AD) gave the following explanation: Pictogram (象形) : 禾 (“plant”) + 乃, resembling a fruit/an ear hanging off a plant.
According to Chi (2010), the character is an ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 禾 (“rice plant”) + 引 (“to draw out flowers”) — blooming of a rice plant. The Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts ((deprecated template usage) 睡簡) recorded this character as ⿱禾引. The bottom component 弓 found in the stone drum inscriptions is likely a reduction of 引.
Etymology 1
May be a causative of 褎 (OC *lɯws, “growth of seedlings”). Compare Proto-Vietic *m-loh (“to blossom”) (whence Vietnamese trổ (“to burst, to open, to display”), lổ (“naked”)), and Khmer លាស់ (lŏəh, “to grow, to blossom, to prosper”).
Pronunciation
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Definitions
- † (of plants, especially of crops) to shoot out into ears; earing; ear
- † (of plants) to bear fruit
- † (of plants) to blossom
- beautiful; elegant; graceful
- (especially of a person) outstanding; prominent; extraordinary
Compounds
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Descendants
Etymology 2
Phono-semantic matching of English show.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: siòu
- Wade–Giles: hsiu4
- Yale: syòu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiow
- Palladius: сю (sju)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
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Japanese
Kanji
Readings
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秀 |
しゅう Grade: S |
on'yomi |
Proper noun
- a male given name
Korean
Hanja
秀 (eumhun 빼어날 수 (ppaeeonal su))
Vietnamese
Han character
(deprecated template usage) 秀 (tú)
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