餿

See also: 馊

餿 U+993F, 餿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-993F ← 餾 [U+993E] CJK Unified Ideographs 饀 → [U+9940]

Translingual

Han character

餿 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹難水 (OIHXE), four-corner 8774₇, composition ⿰飠叟)

1. spoiled, rotten, stale, rancid

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1424, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44323
• Dae Jaweon: page 1949, character 37
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4465, character 3
• Unihan data for U+993F

Chinese

trad.		餿
simp.		馊

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
㮴	*suːw
艘	*suːw, *sɯːw
嫂	*suːwʔ
瞍	*sɯːw, *suːʔ
謏	*slɯːwʔ, *suːʔ, *suːs, *srɯwɢ
叜	*sluːʔ
叟	*suːʔ
傁	*suːʔ
廋	*suːʔ, *sru
醙	*suʔ, *sru
遚	*sʰrus
餿	*sru
搜	*sru
颼	*sru
溲	*sru, *sruʔ
鎪	*sru
獀	*sru
鄋	*sru
螋	*sru, *sro
騪	*sru
瘦	*srus

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sōu (sou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹, suk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sou
    • Wade–Giles: sou¹
    • Yale: sōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sou
    • Palladius: соу (sou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau¹, suk¹
    • Yale: sāu, sūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹, suk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹, sug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵/, /sʊk̚⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sru/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	餿
Reading #	1/1
No.	12078
Phonetic component	叟
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	𢯱
Old Chinese	/*sru/

Definitions

餿

1. (of food) to spoil and stink

Compounds

• 餿主意／馊主意
• 餿水／馊水
• 餿水油／馊水油
• 餿臭／馊臭 (sōuchòu)

 

References

• “餿”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–