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鬚

See also: 须
鬚 U+9B1A, 鬚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B1A
← 鬙
[U+9B19] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鬛 →
[U+9B1B]

Translingual

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Han character

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鬚 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+12, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹竹竹金 (SHHHC), four-corner 72286, composition ⿱髟須)

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1456, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45580
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1988, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4535, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9B1A

Chinese

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trad. 鬚
simp. 须*
alternative forms 須 archaic
䰅
䰑

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (須) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
盨 *sraʔ
須 *so
鬚 *so
嬃 *so
蕦 *so

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *so) : semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 須 (OC *so, “beard”).

Originally written 須, see there for more.

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nwat ~ *s-nut (“mouth”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • chhiu - vernacular;
  • su/si - literary.
Rime
Character 鬚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相俞切
Baxter sju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/sɨo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sio/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/suə̆/
Li
Rong 		/sio/
Wang
Li 		/sĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/si̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		seoi1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鬚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sju ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C-[s.n]o/
English beard

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 鬚
Reading # 1/1
No. 13956
Phonetic
component 		須
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		須
Old
Chinese 		/*so/
Notes 須轉註俗字

Definitions

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鬚

  1. beard; whisker (Classifier: 條／条 c)
    剃鬚／剃须 [Cantonese]  ―  tai3 sou1 [Jyutping]  ―  to shave one's beard
    虎鬚／虎须  ―  hǔxū  ―  tiger's whiskers
  2. antenna; feeler
  3. whisker-like

Synonyms

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Dialectal synonyms of 鬍子 (“beard”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 鬍鬚, 鬍子
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 鬍子
Taiwan 鬍子, 鬍鬚
Harbin 鬍子
Singapore 鬍鬚
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 鬍子
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 鬍子
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 鬍子
Wanrong 鬍子
Xi'an 鬍子
Xining 鬍子
Xuzhou 鬍子
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 鬍子
Ürümqi 鬍子
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 鬍子, 鬍鬍兒
Wuhan 鬍子
Guiyang 鬍子
Guilin 鬍子
Liuzhou 鬍子, 鬍鬚
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 鬍子
Yangzhou 鬍子
Hefei 鬍子
Mandarin Nanping (Yanping) 鬍子
Cantonese Guangzhou 鬍鬚, 鬚
Hong Kong 鬍鬚, 鬚
Dongguan 鬍, 鬍鬚
Yangjiang 鬚
Gan Nanchang 鬍子, 鬍鬚
Lichuan 鬍子
Pingxiang 鬍子
Hakka Meixian 鬍鬚, 鬚菇
Yudu 鬍子
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 鬚菇, 嘴鬚
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 鬚菇, 嘴鬚
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 鬚菇, 嘴鬚
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 鬍鬚, 嘴鬚
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 鬚菇, 嘴鬚
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 嘴鬚
Huizhou Jixi 鬍子
Jin Taiyuan 鬍子, 鬍才, 鬍茬茬
Xinzhou 鬍子, 鬍腮
Northern Min Jian'ou 鬍鬚
Eastern Min Fuzhou 喙鬚
Southern Min Xiamen 喙鬚
Xiamen (Tong'an) 喙鬚
Quanzhou 喙鬚
Jinjiang 喙鬚
Yongchun 喙鬚
Zhangzhou 喙鬚
Taipei 喙鬚
New Taipei (Sanxia) 喙鬚
Kaohsiung 喙鬚
Yilan 喙鬚
Changhua (Lukang) 喙鬚
Taichung 喙鬚
Tainan 喙鬚
Hsinchu 喙鬚
Kinmen 喙鬚
Penghu (Magong) 喙鬚
Singapore (Hokkien) 喙鬚
Manila (Hokkien) 喙鬚
Chaozhou 鬚
Shantou 鬚
Jieyang 鬚
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 鬍子, 鬍鬚
Waxiang Guzhang (Gaofeng) 鬍
Wu Shanghai 牙鬚, 鬍子, 鬍鬚
Shanghai (Chongming) 鬍子
Suzhou 鬍鬚, 鬍子
Danyang 鬍子
Ningbo 牙鬚
Wenzhou 鬍鬚, 下巴鬚
Jinhua 鬍, 鬍鬚
Xiang Changsha 鬍子, 鬍鬚
Loudi 鬍子
Shuangfeng 鬍子

Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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鬚

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. beard

Readings

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  • Go-on: す (su)
  • Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
  • Kun: ひげ (hige, 鬚)

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
鬚
ひげ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 鬚 – see the following entry.
【ひげ】
[noun] (broadly) facial hair on the upper lip region, the chin, and the cheeks
[noun] 鬚: beard, goatee (chin hair)
[noun] (figurative) whiskers (of animals)
[noun] (figurative) antennae (of insects)
[noun] (figurative) corn silk
Alternative spellings
髭, 髯
(This term, 鬚, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 鬚 (MC sju). Recorded as Middle Korean 슈 (syu) (Yale: syu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

鬚 (eumhun 수염 수 (suyeom su))

  1. hanja form? of 수 (“beard”)

Compounds

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Compounds

References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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鬚: Hán Nôm readings: tu, tua

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