需

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

需 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一月一月中 (MBMBL), four-corner 1022₇, composition ⿱⻗而)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1373, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42275
• Dae Jaweon: page 1883, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4062, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9700

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Chinese

trad.		需
simp. #		需

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 需
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
羺	*noː
獳	*noː
擩	*noːs, *njoʔ, *njos, *njul, *njod
譳	*noːs
懦	*noːls, *njo
糯	*noːls
需	*sno
繻	*sno, *njo
鑐	*sno
儒	*njo
濡	*njo, *noːn
襦	*njo
嚅	*njo
顬	*njo
鱬	*njo
嬬	*njo
臑	*njo
醹	*njo, *njoʔ
蠕	*njo
孺	*njos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sno) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 而 (OC *njɯ) – to wait till the rain is over.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 需

1. to await
2. to need; to require
3. necessaries; necessities
4. should; ought to; must
5. fifth hexagram of the I Ching

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

需

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅ (ju, Jōyō)
• Kun: もとめる (motomeru, 需める); ぬれる (nureru); まつ (matsu)

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Korean

Hanja

需 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 需 (nhu)

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