素

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Historical forms of the character 素
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) – hands braiding thread 糸.

In modern form, top component looks like 生 without the diagonal stroke – compare 責, 青.

Han characterEdit

素 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手一女戈火 (QMVIF), four-corner 5090₃, composition ⿱龶糸)

1. white (silk)
2. plain
3. vegetarian
4. formerly
5. normally
6. element

See alsoEdit

• 責 青

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 918, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27300
• Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3368, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7D20

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		素

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sù (su⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): su
• Min Nan (POJ): sò͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sù
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: su⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
    • IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sou³
    • Yale: sou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou³
    • IPA ^(key): /sou̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su
    • Hakka Romanization System: su
    • Hagfa Pinyim: su⁴
    • IPA: /su⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘
    • Tâi-lô: sòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sox
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 素
Mandarin	Beijing	/su⁵¹/
	Harbin	/su⁵³/
	Tianjin	/su⁵³/
	Jinan	/su²¹/
	Qingdao	/su⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/su³¹²/
	Xi'an	/su⁴⁴/
	Xining	/ɕy²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/su¹³/
	Lanzhou	/su¹³/
	Ürümqi	/su²¹³/
	Wuhan	/səu³⁵/
	Chengdu	/su¹³/
	Guiyang	/su²¹³/
	Kunming	/su²¹²/
	Nanjing	/su⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/su⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/su⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/səu³⁵/
	Hohhot	/su⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/su³⁵/
	Suzhou	/səu⁵¹³/
	Hangzhou	/su⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/sɤu⁴²/
Hui	Shexian	/su³²⁴/
	Tunxi	/səu⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/səu⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/səɯ⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/su⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/sz̩⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/su⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sou³³/
	Nanning	/ɬu³³/
	Hong Kong	/sou³³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/sɔ²¹/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/sou²¹²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/su³³/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/su²¹³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/so³⁵/ /to³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /suo^H/▼

Rime
Character	素
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	桑故切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suoH/
Pan Wuyun	/suoH/
Shao Rongfen	/soH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɔH/
Li Rong	/soH/
Wang Li	/suH/
Bernard Karlgren	/suoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[s]ˤak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*saːs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	素
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sù
Middle Chinese	‹ suH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˤak-s/
English	white silk
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	素
Reading #	1/1
No.	12099
Phonetic component	素
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	訴
Old Chinese	/*saːs/

DefinitionsEdit

素

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CompoundsEdit

• 素不相識／素不相识
• 素什錦／素什锦
• 素來／素来
• 素席
• 素常
• 素志
• 素性
• 素描 (sùmiáo)
• 素數／素数 (sùshù)
• 素日
• 素昔

• 素昧平生
• 素服
• 素材 (sùcái)
• 素樸／素朴 (sùpǔ)
• 素氣／素气
• 素油 (sùyóu)
• 素淡
• 素淨／素净
• 素潔／素洁
• 素白
• 素菜 (sùcài)

• 素裹
• 素質／素质 (sùzhì)
• 素酒
• 素雅
• 素面
• 素願／素愿
• 素食 (sùshí)
• 素養／素养 (sùyǎng)
• 素餐
• 護髮素／护发素 (hùfàsù)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

素

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• Goon: す (su)
• Kan’on: そ (so)
• Kun: しろぎぬ (shiroginu), きじ (kiji), もと (moto)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

素馨 (そけい) ‎(sokei): Spanish jasmine

Derived termsEdit

• 素通 (すどお)り ‎(sudōri)
• 素泊 (すどま)り ‎(sudomari), 素泊 (すど)まり ‎(sudomari)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

素 • ‎(so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

素 (tố, tó)

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CompoundsEdit

• 生素 ‎(sinh tố)