髄

See also: 髓

髄 U+9AC4, 髄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AC4 ← 髃 [U+9AC3] CJK Unified Ideographs 髅 → [U+9AC5]

Translingual

Han character

髄 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+9, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月月卜大月 (BBYKB) or 難月月卜大 (XBBYK), composition ⿰骨迶)

1. bone marrow
2. essences, substances

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1450, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45240
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4416, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9AC4

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 髄 – see 髓 (“bone marrow; pith; medulla; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 髓).

Japanese

Shinjitai	髄
Kyūjitai	髓

Kanji

髄

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 髓)

1. bone marrow

Readings

• Go-on: すい (sui)
• Kan-on: すい (sui)
• Kan’yō-on: ずい (zui, Jōyō)
• Kun: すね (sune); なずき (nazuki)^{←なづき (naduki, historical)}
• Nanori: なか (naka)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
髄
ずい Grade: S
kan’yōon

Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 髓 (MC sjweX, “bone marrow”). First appears in the late 800s, early 900s.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ず​い [zúꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [d͡zɨᵝi]

Noun

髄(ずい) • (zui) 

1. bone marrow
2. the pith of a plant
3. (figurative) the pith or essence of something, such as a skill or cultural thing

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
髄
ずん Grade: S
irregular

Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

Shift from zui above. First appears in the early 1700s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d͡zɨ̃ᵝɴ]

Noun

髄(ずん) • (zun) 

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) the center of something
2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) something straight
3. (archaic, possibly obsolete) an exact direction, an immediate area

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
髄
なずき Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 髄 – see the following entry.

【脳なずき】6 [noun] (archaic, anatomy) the brain [noun] (archaic, by extension) the head

(This term, 髄, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
髄
すね Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese. Appears in the 新訳華厳経音義私記 (Shin'yaku Kegon-kyō Ongi Shiki, “Private Record of Sounds and Meanings of the New Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra”) of 794 CE.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɨᵝne̞]

Noun

髄(すね) • (sune) 

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) bone marrow

References

• “髄”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
• “髄”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984