穗

See also: 穂

穗 U+7A57, 穗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A57 ← 穖 [U+7A56] CJK Unified Ideographs 穘 → [U+7A58]

Translingual

Han character

穗 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹木十戈心 (HDJIP), four-corner 2593₃, composition ⿰禾惠)

Derived characters

• 𬟘

Related characters

• 穂 (Japanese shinjitai)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 860, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25298
• Dae Jaweon: page 1286, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2631, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7A57

Chinese

simp. and trad.		穗
2nd round simp.		𬜨
alternative forms		𥝩 穂 𥣼 𦼯 繐／𰬸 “tassel”

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 穗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (惠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
韢	*skʰʷeds
繐	*sqʰʷeds, *ɢʷiːds
憓	*ɢʷiːds
潓	*ɢʷiːds
惠	*ɢʷiːds
蟪	*ɢʷiːds
蕙	*ɢʷiːds
橞	*ɢʷiːds
譓	*ɢʷiːds
鏸	*ɢʷiːds
穗	*sɢʷids

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sɢʷids): semantic 禾 (“grain”) + phonetic 惠 (OC *ɢʷiːds).

Etymology

From Sino-Tibetan; compare Mizo vui (“ear (of grain); to ear”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): suì (sui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): xu⁴ / sui⁴

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): seoi⁶

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): lhui⁵

• Gan (Wiktionary): sui⁵
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sui

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sui⁴

• Jin (Wiktionary): sui³
• Northern Min (KCR): hṳ̄
• Eastern Min (BUC): sói
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sūi / hūi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sui⁷

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zoe
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): fei⁴ / sei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suèi
    • Wade–Giles: sui⁴
    • Yale: swèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suey
    • Palladius: суй (suj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suìr
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suèir
    • Wade–Giles: sui⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: swèir
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suell
    • Palladius: суйр (sujr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯əɻ⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: xu⁴ / sui⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xy / sui
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy²¹³/, /suei²¹³/

Note:

• xu4 - vernacular;
• sui4 - literary.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶
    • Yale: seuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: lhui⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬui³²/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: sui⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sui¹¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sui
    • Hakka Romanization System: sui
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sui⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /su̯i⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sui⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /suɪ⁵³/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: sui³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /suei⁴⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hṳ̄
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xy⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sói
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sui²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sūi
    • Tâi-lô: suī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sui
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sui³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sui²²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hūi
    • Tâi-lô: huī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hui
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hui³³/
Note: hūi - only used in 瑞穗 (Sūi-hūi).
• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sui⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sūi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sui¹¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zoe
    • MiniDict: zoe^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zø²³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: fei⁴ / sei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɸe̞i̯⁴⁵/, /se̞i̯⁴⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: zwijH

Rime
Character	穗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	徐醉切
Baxter	zwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷiH/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwiH/
Li Rong	/zuiH/
Wang Li	/zwiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zwiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.[ɢ]ʷi[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɢʷids/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	穗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	suì
Middle Chinese	‹ zwijH ›
Old Chinese	/*s.[ɢ]ʷi[t]-s/
English	ear of grain
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	穗
Reading #	1/1
No.	5490
Phonetic component	惠
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	遂
Old Chinese	/*sɢʷids/

Definitions

穗

1. ear of grain
2. tassel
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) snuff of a candle
4. (abbreviation) Guangzhou
5. a surname

Compounds

• 一禾九穗 (yīhéjiǔsuì)
• 一穗三秀
• 一莖九穗 / 一茎九穗
• 一莖六穗 / 一茎六穗
• 三穗 (Sānsuì)
• 乳穗
• 六穗
• 共穗
• 吐穗 (tǔsuì)
• 合穗
• 嘉穗
• 孕穗 (yùnsuì)
• 抽穗 (chōusuì)
• 拾穗
• 接穗 (jiēsuì)
• 果穗
• 煙穗 / 烟穗
• 燈穗 / 灯穗
• 燈穗子 / 灯穗子
• 燭穗 / 烛穗
• 爐穗 / 炉穗
• 瑞穗 (Ruìsuì)
• 盈車嘉穗 / 盈车嘉穗
• 禾穗
• 秀穗
• 秉穗
• 穀穗 / 谷穗 (gǔsuì)
• 稻穗 (dàosuì)
• 穗兒 / 穗儿
• 穗城 (Suìchéng)
• 穗子 (suìzi)
• 穗帶 / 穗带
• 穗狀花序 / 穗状花序
• 穗肥
• 穗軸 / 穗轴
• 穗選 / 穗选
• 穗頭 / 穗头
• 糠穗
• 紫穗槐
• 線穗子 / 线穗子
• 肉穗花序
• 辮穗頭 / 辫穗头
• 遺穗 / 遗穗
• 金穗
• 金麥穗 / 金麦穗
• 霜穗
• 青穗
• 香穗
• 駢穗 / 骈穗
• 騎羊執穗 / 骑羊执穗
• 麥穗 / 麦穗 (màisuì)
• 麥穗兩岐 / 麦穗两岐
• 麥穗兩歧 / 麦穗两歧
• 黍穗
• 黑穗病

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02948
• “穗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	穂
Kyūjitai	穗

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 穗

穗

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 穂)

1. Kyūjitai form of 穂.

Readings

• Go-on: ずい (zui)^{←ずゐ (zwi, historical)}
• Kan-on: すい (sui)^{←すゐ (swi, historical)}
• Kun: ほ (ho, 穗)

Usage notes

• As in historical on-readings ending in -ゐ, such as "つゐ", "ゆゐ", and "るゐ", most dictionaries do not have "すゐ" and "すゐ" as historical readings for 穗. According to historical data, the on-readings of 穗 are the modern "すい" and "ずい". However, the Dai Kanwa Jiten, has the -ゐ historical on-readings.

Korean

Hanja

穗 • (isak su) (hangeul 이삭 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

穗: Hán Nôm readings: tuệ

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References

• Nom Foundation