蔬

蔬 U+852C, 蔬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-852C ← 蔫 [U+852B] CJK Unified Ideographs 蔭 → [U+852D]

Translingual

Han character

蔬 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓一山 (TNMU), four-corner 4411₃, composition ⿱艹疏)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1055, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31839
• Dae Jaweon: page 1518, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3298, character 2
• Unihan data for U+852C

Chinese

trad.		蔬
simp. #		蔬
2nd round simp.		𦬸

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
疋	*ŋraːʔ, *sŋra, *sŋraʔ
蝑	*sŋas, *sŋa
壻	*sŋeːs
婿	*sŋeːs
胥	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
稰	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
楈	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
諝	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
湑	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
揟	*sŋa
醑	*sŋaʔ
糈	*sŋaʔ, *sŋraʔ
楚	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ, *sŋ̊ʰras
礎	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
憷	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
齼	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
濋	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
儊	*sŋ̊ʰras
綀	*sŋra
疎	*sŋra
疏	*sŋra, *sŋras
蔬	*sŋra
梳	*sŋra

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋra): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 疏 (OC *sŋra, *sŋras)

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): фу (fu, I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): so¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): so͘ / soe / se

  (Teochew, Peng'im): so¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵su; ¹su

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shu
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹
    • Yale: shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: фу (fu, I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fou²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: so¹
    • Yale: sō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: so¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: so¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so͘
    • Tâi-lô: soo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soe
    • Tâi-lô: sue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soef
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /sue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sue³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se
    • Tâi-lô: se
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sef
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /se⁴⁴/

Note:

• so͘ - literary;
• soe/se - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: so¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: so
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /so³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵su; ¹su
    • MiniDict: su^去; su^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²su; ¹su
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /su³⁴/, /su⁵³/
Note: 1su - only in 蔬菜.

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• Middle Chinese: srjo

Rime
Character	蔬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	所葅切
Baxter	srjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂɨə̆/
Li Rong	/ʃiɔ/
Wang Li	/ʃĭo/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	so1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋra/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ srjo ›
Old Chinese	/*sra/
English	vegetable, 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	蔬
Reading #	1/1
No.	11791
Phonetic component	疋
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*sŋra/
Notes	見爾雅國語

Definitions

蔬

1. vegetables; greens

Compounds

• 亞蔬中心 / 亚蔬中心
• 冷凍蔬菜 / 冷冻蔬菜
• 嘉蔬
• 布衣蔬食 (bùyīshūshí)
• 惡衣蔬食 / 恶衣蔬食
• 時蔬 / 时蔬 (shíshū)
• 有機蔬菜 / 有机蔬菜
• 水耕蔬菜
• 菜蔬 (càishū)
• 蔬圃
• 蔬果 (shūguǒ)
• 蔬糲 / 蔬粝
• 蔬茹氣 / 蔬茹气
• 蔬菜 (shūcài)
• 蔬食 (shūshí)
• 飯蔬飲水 / 饭蔬饮水
• 齋居蔬食 / 斋居蔬食

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǔ (shu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shǔ
    • Wade–Giles: shu³
    • Yale: shǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu²¹⁴/

Definitions

蔬

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 糈 (xǔ, “grain of rice”)

References

• “蔬”, 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

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 蔬

蔬

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. greens (vegetables)

Readings

• Go-on: しょ (sho)
• Kan-on: そ (so)
• Kun: あおもの (aomono)

Korean

Hanja

蔬 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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