蕦

蕦 U+8566, 蕦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8566 ← 蕥 [U+8565] CJK Unified Ideographs 蕧 → [U+8567]

Translingual

Han character

蕦 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹竹金 (THHC), four-corner 4428₆, composition ⿱艹須)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1058, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31997
• Dae Jaweon: page 1521, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3293, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8566

Chinese

trad.		蕦
simp. #		蕦

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
盨	*sraʔ
須	*so
鬚	*so
嬃	*so
蕦	*so

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xū (xu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syu
    • Wade–Giles: hsü¹
    • Yale: syū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seoi¹
    • Yale: sēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sju

Rime
Character	蕦
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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*so/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蕦
Reading #	1/1
No.	13958
Phonetic component	須
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	須
Old Chinese	/*so/

Definitions

蕦

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative name for 酸模 (suānmó, “sorrel”).