殊

殊 U+6B8A, 殊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B8A ← 殉 [U+6B89] CJK Unified Ideographs 残 → [U+6B8B]

Translingual

Han character

殊 (Kangxi radical 78, 歹+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一弓竹十木 (MNHJD), four-corner 1529₀, composition ⿰歹朱)

1. (Classical) to decapitate; to behead, to cut off
2. special, exceptional, different, uncommon

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 580, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16451
• Dae Jaweon: page 972, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1385, character 13
• Unihan data for U+6B8A

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Chinese

trad.		殊
simp. #		殊

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
咮	*tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
株	*to
誅	*to
邾	*to
鼄	*to
跦	*to
袾	*to, *tʰjo
鴸	*to, *tjo
蛛	*to
殊	*to, *djo
趎	*do
珠	*tjo
朱	*tjo
侏	*tjo
絑	*tjo
祩	*tjo, *tjos
鮢	*tjo
硃	*tjo
姝	*tʰjo
銖	*djo
茱	*djo
洙	*djo
陎	*djo

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shu
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹
    • Yale: shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu⁴
    • Yale: syùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
    • Tâi-lô: sû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 殊
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʂu⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/ʂu²⁴/ /ʂu⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁴⁵/ /t͡sʰu⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁴²/
	Qingdao	/ʃu²¹³/ /tʃʰu⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁴²/
	Xi'an	/fu²⁴/
	Xining	/fv̩⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʂu⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/fu³¹/
	Ürümqi	/ʂu⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/su⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/su⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/su⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ʂu⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂʰu²⁴/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/su¹¹/
	Pingyao	/sz̩ʷ¹³/
	Hohhot	/su³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/zz̩²³/
	Suzhou	/zz̩ʷ¹³/
	Hangzhou	/zz̩ʷ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/zz̩³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕyʔ²¹/ /t͡ɕʰyʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕy¹³/
	Xiangtan	/ɕy¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕy⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/su¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/ʃu¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sy²¹/
	Nanning	/sy²¹/
	Hong Kong	/sy²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/su³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/sy⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/sy²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/su⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/t͡si²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyu

Rime
Character	殊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	市朱切
Baxter	dzyu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑio/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑuə̆/
Li Rong	/ʑio/
Wang Li	/ʑĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*to/, /*djo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	殊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyu ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]o/
English	die; different
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	殊	殊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17565	17580
Phonetic component	朱	朱
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	株	殊
Old Chinese	/*to/	/*djo/
Notes	原作列，周校爲殊，與其或體從朱從戈合

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 殊

1. different
2. special

   • 故言多方，殊類，異故，則不可偏觀也 [MSC, trad.]
     故言多方，殊类，异故，则不可偏观也 [MSC, simp.]

     gù yán duō fāng, shū lèi, yì gù, zé bùkě piān guān yě [Pinyin]

     The doctrine is manifold, with special classes and different reasonings, impossible to be regarded from a single perspective

3. ^† extremely, very

   • 殊不知我之津、液、涎、淚皆水 [MSC, trad.]
     殊不知我之津、液、涎、泪皆水 [MSC, simp.]

     shū bùzhī wǒ zhī jīn, yè, xián, lèi jiē shuǐ [Pinyin]

     Although extremely ignorant, I know (at least) than sweat, juice, saliva and tears are all water

4. ^† still, yet

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Japanese

Kanji

殊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じゅ (ju), ず (zu)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: こと (koto), ことなる (kotonaru), ころす (korosu), たつ (tatsu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 殊 (thùa, thù, thò)

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