Wiktionary

蘇

See also: 蘓 and 苏
蘇 U+8607, 蘇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8607
← 蘆
[U+8606] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蘈 →
[U+8608]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

蘇 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓火木 (TNFD), four-corner 44394, composition ⿱艹穌)

Derived charactersEdit

Related charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 1068, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32427
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1534, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3327, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8607

ChineseEdit

trad. 蘇
simp. 苏*
alternative forms 蘓／苏
穌／稣
⿱艹⿰𩵋禾

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 蘇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
 
Characters in the same phonetic series (魚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蘇 *sŋaː
穌 *sŋaː
魚 *ŋa
漁 *ŋa
䱷 *ŋa

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sŋaː): semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 穌 (OC *sŋaː).

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Cantonese "socket"
Borrowed from English socket.

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 蘇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 素姑切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/suo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/suo/
Shao
Rongfen 		/so/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/sɔ/
Li
Rong 		/so/
Wang
Li 		/su/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/suo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		sū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sou1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蘇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		sū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ su ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s-ŋˁa/
English revive

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 蘇
Reading # 1/1
No. 15937
Phonetic
component 		魚
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		蘇
Old
Chinese 		/*sŋaː/

DefinitionsEdit

蘇

  1. perilla (Perilla frutescens)
  2. † firewood
  3. † to reap grass
  4. † to take; to get
  5. tassel
  6. (Cantonese) socket
  7. Short for 江蘇／江苏 (Jiāngsū, “Jiangsu Province”).
  8. Short for 蘇州／苏州 (Sūzhōu, “Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province”).
  9. Short for 蘇維埃／苏维埃 (sūwéi'āi, “soviet”).
  10. Short for 蘇聯／苏联 (Sūlián, “Soviet Union”).
    蘇僑／苏侨  ―  Sū qiáo  ―  Soviet national residing in another country
    美蘇冷戰／美苏冷战  ―  Měi Sū lěngzhàn  ―  the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union
  11. Short for 蘇格蘭／苏格兰 (Sūgélán, “Scotland”).
  12. Alternative form of 甦／苏 (sū, “to revive; to regain consciousness”).
  13. a surname
    蘇軾／苏轼  ―  Sū Shì  ―  Su Shi (Song dynasty writer)

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 蘇

DescendantsEdit

Sino-Xenic (蘇):
  • → Japanese: 蘇(そ) (so)

Others:

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

蘇

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. be resurrected, revived
  2. perilla, shiso
  3. kanji used to transliterate borrowings from foreign languages

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

EtymologyEdit

Kanji in this term
蘇
そ
Jinmeiyō
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 蘇 (MC suo).

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨so1⟩

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

蘇(そ) • (so) 

  1. Alternative spelling of 酥 (so): condensed milk

Derived termsEdit

Proper nounEdit

蘇(そ) • (So) 

  1. a surname

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

蘇 • (so) (hangeul 소)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Pai-langEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n. Compare Burmese သား (sa:, “meat”), Tibetan ཤ (sha, “flesh”).

NounEdit

蘇 (*sa)

  1. meat

ReferencesEdit

  • Hill, Nathan W. (2017), “Songs of the Bailang: A New Transcription with Etymological Commentary”, in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient‎[1], volume 103, pages 386—429

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

蘇: Hán Nôm readings: tô, to, su, tua

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