受

Translingual

Han character

受 (Kangxi radical 29, 又+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月月水 (BBE), four-corner 2040₇, composition ⿳爫冖又)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 166, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3159
• Dae Jaweon: page 377, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 396, character 2
• Unihan data for U+53D7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		受

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 受
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 (受) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
受	*tuːs, *djuʔ
綬	*djuʔ, *djus
授	*djus

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 爪 (“hand”) + 凡 (“plate”) + 又 (“hand”) - to hand over.

凡 in the middle was corrupted into 舟 (OC *tjɯw), which acted as a phonetic component. It has been simplified to 冖 since the seal script.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shòu (shou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): su
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siǔ / siū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shòu
    • Wade–Giles: shou⁴
    • Yale: shòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: show
    • Palladius: шоу (šou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sau⁶
    • Yale: sauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su
    • Hakka Romanization System: su
    • Hagfa Pinyim: su⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /su⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siǔ
    • Tâi-lô: siǔ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siu²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siū
    • Tâi-lô: siū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siu
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siu³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siu²²/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyuwX

Rime
Character	受
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	殖酉切
Baxter	dzyuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨuX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiuX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑuwX/
Li Rong	/ʑiuX/
Wang Li	/ʑĭəuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sau6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]uʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tuːs/, /*djuʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	受
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shòu
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]uʔ/
English	receive
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	受	受
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11673	11674
Phonetic component	受	受
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	到	受
Old Chinese	/*tuːs/	/*djuʔ/
Notes	姓，下原誤作丈，依集韻校改

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 受

1. to receive; to accept
2. to bear; to stand

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Japanese

Kanji

受

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ず (zu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅ (ju, Jōyō)
• Kun: うかる (ukaru, 受かる, Jōyō); うける (ukeru, 受ける, Jōyō); うけ (uke, 受け)

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Korean

Hanja

受 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 受 (thụ, thọ)

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