宿

Translingual

Han character

宿 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十人一日 (JOMA), four-corner 3026₁, composition ⿱宀佰)

1. stop, rest, lodge, stay overnight
2. (astronomy) constellation, particularly the lunar mansions of Chinese astronomy

Derived characters

• 縮 (缩)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 287, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7195
• Dae Jaweon: page 568, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 938, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5BBF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		宿

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
宿	*suɡs, *suɡ
蓿	*suɡ
縮	*sruɡ
樎	*sruɡ
蹜	*sruɡ
摍	*sruɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sù, xiǔ, xiù (su⁴, xiu³, xiu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ, ㄒㄧㄡˇ, ㄒㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau³ / suk¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siok / siak / sek / sok / siù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sù
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sù
    • Wade–Giles: su⁴
    • Yale: sù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
    • Palladius: су (su)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǒu
    • Wade–Giles: hsiu³
    • Yale: syǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheou
    • Palladius: сю (sju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siòu
    • Wade–Giles: hsiu⁴
    • Yale: syòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiow
    • Palladius: сю (sju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sau³ / suk¹
    • Yale: sau / sūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau³ / suk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo³ / sug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³³/, /sʊk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok
    • Tâi-lô: siok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
    • Tâi-lô: sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sok
    • Tâi-lô: sok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siù
    • Tâi-lô: siù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siux
    • IPA (Taipei): /siu¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu²¹/

Note:

• siok - literary;
• siak/sek - vernacular;
• sok - vernacular (俗).

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• Middle Chinese: sjuwH, sjuwk

Rime
Character	宿	宿
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息救切	息逐切
Baxter	sjuwH	sjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨuH/	/sɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/siuH/	/siuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/siəuH/	/siuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/suwH/	/suwk̚/
Li Rong	/siuH/	/siuk̚/
Wang Li	/sĭəuH/	/sĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ə̯uH/	/si̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiù	su
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sau3	suk1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]uk/, /*[s]uk-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*suɡs/, /*suɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	宿	宿
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sù	xiù
Middle Chinese	‹ sjuwk ›	‹ sjuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]uk/	/*[s]uk-s/
English	spend the night	"mansion" of the zodiac (where the moon is found on successive nights)
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	宿	宿
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12104	12105
Phonetic component	宿	宿
Rime group	幽	覺
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	秀	肅
Old Chinese	/*suɡs/	/*suɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 宿

1. night
2. to lodge, to overnight
3. constellation, lunar mansion (vd. 'Compounds' for more information)
4. old
5. ^† to procrastinate, procrastination

   • 宿治者削  ―  sù zhì zhě xuē  ―  Procrastination in (the creation of) order leads to dismemberment

Compounds

• 壁宿 (Bìxiù)
• 斗宿 (Dǒuxiù)
• 牛宿 (Niúxiù)
• 女宿 (Nǚxiù)
• 室宿 (Shìxiù)
• 宿舍 (sùshè)
• 危宿 (Wēixiù)
• 虚宿
• 住宿 (zhùsù)

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Noun

宿(やど) • (yado) 

1. lodging, inn
2. house, home

Kanji

宿

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. lodging, inn
2. home

Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu); すく (suku)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū); しゅく (shuku, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: しゅく (shuku, Jōyō)
• Kun: やどる (yadoru, 宿る, Jōyō); やど (yado, 宿, Jōyō); やどす (yadosu, 宿す, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 民宿(みんしゅく) (minshuku): traditional Japanese budget inn
• 新宿(しんじゅく) (Shinjuku): Shinjuku
• 宿題(しゅくだい) (shukudai): homework
• 宿命(しゅくめい) (shukumei): destiny; fate
• 宿泊(しゅくはく) (shukuhaku): lodging
• 野宿(のじゅく) (nojuku): sleeping rough; wild camping
• 安宿(やすやど) (yasuyado): cheap hotel

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Korean

Hanja

宿 • (suk, su) (hangeul 숙, 수, revised suk, su, McCune–Reischauer suk, su)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 宿 (túc, tú)

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