須

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See also: 须
須 U+9808, 須
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9808
← 頇
[U+9807] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 頉 →
[U+9809]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

須 (radical 181 頁+3, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹一月金 (HHMBC), four-corner 21286, composition ⿰彡頁)

Derived characters[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1399, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43352
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1916, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4358, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9808

Chinese[edit]

trad. 須
simp. 须*

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 須
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
須-oracle.svg 須-bronze.svg 須-silk.svg 須-seal.svg 須-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (須) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
盨 *sraʔ
須 *so
鬚 *so
嬃 *so
蕦 *so

Pictogram (象形): 彡 (“hair”) + 頁 (“head”) – a head with hair on its side – beard; whiskers — original character of 鬚 (OC *so). Originally a single picture, but abstracted in the seal script into a compound.

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 須
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相俞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/sɨo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sio/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/suə̆/
Li
Rong 		/sio/
Wang
Li 		/sĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/si̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 須
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sju ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[s]o/
English 斯須 a short time

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 須
Reading # 1/1
No. 13955
Phonetic
component 		須
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		須
Old
Chinese 		/*so/

Definitions[edit]

須

  1. must; have to; should

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 須 – see 鬚 (“beard; whisker; antenna; feeler; etc.”).
(This character, 須, is a variant form of 鬚.)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

須

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mandatory

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

須 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

須 (tua, tu)

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