諏

See also: 诹

諏 U+8ACF, 諏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8ACF ← 諎 [U+8ACE] CJK Unified Ideographs 諐 → [U+8AD0]

Translingual

Han character

諏 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+8, 15 strokes, Cangjie input 卜口尸十水 (YRSJE), four-corner 0164₇, composition ⿰訁取)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1168, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35648
• Dae Jaweon: page 1633, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3983, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8ACF

Chinese

trad.		諏
simp.		诹
alternative forms		𧩞

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔslo) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 言 (“talk, discuss”) + phonetic 取 (OC *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ, “take, select”).

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

	Old Chinese
陬	*ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *ʔslo
棷	*ʔsloː, *sʰloːʔ, *sloːʔ, *ʔsru
掫	*ʔsloː, *ʔsruʔ, *ʔslo
緅	*ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *slos
趣	*sʰloːʔ, *sʰlos
取	*sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ
鯫	*zloː, *zloːʔ, *sʰlo
棸	*rlu, *rluʔ, *ʔsru
鄹	*ʔsru, *zloʔ, *ljoːnʔ
郰	*ʔsru
齱	*ʔsru, *sʰroːɡ
菆	*ʔsru, *sʰros, *zloːn
箃	*ʔsru
黀	*ʔsru
驟	*zrus
最	*zloːds
襊	*sʰoːds, *sʰoːd
蕞	*zoːds
嘬	*sʰroːds
諏	*ʔslo
娵	*ʔslo
娶	*sʰloʔ, *sʰlos, *slo
聚	*zloʔ, *zlos
埾	*zlos
藂	*zloːŋ
叢	*zloːŋ
繓	*ʔsoːd
撮	*ʔsoːd, *sʰoːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zōu (zou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zou
    • Wade–Giles: tsou¹
    • Yale: dzōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzou
    • Palladius: цзоу (czou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zau¹
    • Yale: jāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsju

Rime
Character	諏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子于切
Baxter	tsju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sio/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡suə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡sio/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡si̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	諏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zōu
Middle Chinese	‹ tsju ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]o/
English	inquire
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	諏
Reading #	1/1
No.	10649
Phonetic component	取
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	諏
Old Chinese	/*ʔslo/

Definitions

諏

1. to consult, to confer
2. to select, to choose

Compounds

• 諏吉 / 诹吉
• 諏訪 / 诹访 (zōufǎng)
• 諮諏 / 谘诹

Japanese

Kanji

諏

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. to consult, to confer
2. to choose

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: はかる (hakaru, 諏る)、とう (tou, 諏う)^{←とふ (tofu, 諏ふ, historical)}、えらぶ (erabu, 諏ぶ)

Compounds

• 諏(す)訪(わ) (suwa)
• 諏(し)訪(ほう) (shihō)
• 諏(しゅ)謀(ぼう) (shubō)
• 諮(し)諏(しゅ) (shishu)

Korean

Hanja

諏 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

諏: Hán Việt readings: tưu
諏: Nôm readings: trâu

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