授受

Chinese

		to teach; to instruct; to award to teach; to instruct; to award; to give	to bear; to stand; to endure to bear; to stand; to endure; (passive marker); to receive
simp. and trad. (授受)		授	受

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shòushòu

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄡˋ ㄕㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau⁶ sau⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siū-siǔ / siū-siū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shòushòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄡˋ ㄕㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shòushòu
    • Wade–Giles: shou⁴-shou⁴
    • Yale: shòu-shòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: showshow
    • Palladius: шоушоу (šoušou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau⁶ sau⁶
    • Yale: sauh sauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau⁶ sau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo⁶ seo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯²² sɐu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siū-siǔ
    • Tâi-lô: siū-siǔ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siu⁴¹⁻²² siu²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siū-siū
    • Tâi-lô: siū-siū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siuxsiu
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siu²²⁻²¹ siu²²/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyuwH dzyuwX

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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]uʔ-s  [d]uʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djus  djuʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	授	受
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shòu	shòu
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyuwH ›	‹ dzyuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]uʔ-s/	/*[d]uʔ/
English	give; hand over	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	授	受
Reading #	1/1	2/2
No.	11676	11674
Phonetic component	受	受
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	授	受
Old Chinese	/*djus/	/*djuʔ/

Verb

授受

1. (literary) to give and accept

Derived terms

• 授受不親／授受不亲 (shòushòubùqīn)
• 男女授受不親／男女授受不亲 (nánnǚ shòushòubùqīn)
• 私相授受 (sīxiāngshòushòu)