薯

See also: 藷

薯 U+85AF, 薯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85AF ← 薮 [U+85AE] CJK Unified Ideographs 薰 → [U+85B0]

Translingual

Han character

薯 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中日 (TWLA), four-corner 4460₄, composition ⿱艹署)

Derived characters

• 蠴

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1062, character 45
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32191
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3301, character 18
• Unihan data for U+85AF

Chinese

trad.		薯/藷*
simp.		薯
2nd round simp.		𦬸
alternative forms		茨 Cantonese, Teochew

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 薯
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
觰	*rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸	*tjaː, *tja
者	*tjaːʔ
堵	*tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭	*tjaːʔ
撦	*l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯	*tʰjaːʔ
闍	*djaː, *taː
奢	*hljaː
鍺	*toːlʔ
都	*taː
醏	*taː
覩	*taːʔ
睹	*taːʔ
暏	*taːʔ
賭	*taːʔ
帾	*taːʔ
楮	*taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠	*daː, *da
瘏	*daː
廜	*daː
鷵	*daː
緒	*ljaʔ
豬	*ta
猪	*ta
瀦	*ta
藸	*ta, *da
櫫	*ta
褚	*taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著	*taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸	*tas, *das
儲	*da
躇	*da
櫧	*tja
藷	*tja, *djas
蠩	*tja
煮	*tjaʔ
渚	*tjaʔ
煑	*tjaʔ
陼	*tjaʔ
翥	*tjas
署	*djas
薯	*djas
曙	*djas
書	*hlja
暑	*hjaʔ
鐯	*taɡ
擆	*taɡ
櫡	*taɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǔ (shu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): syu⁴ / syu⁵ / syu⁶

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): si³

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sù

  (Hailu, HRS): shu

  (Meixian, Guangdong): su²

• Northern Min (KCR): ṳ̌
• Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̀
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sy² / su² / si²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chû / chîr / chî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ze⁵

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: syu⁴ / syu⁵ / syu⁶
    • Yale: syùh / syúh / syuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy⁴ / sy⁵ / sy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu⁴ / xu⁵ / xu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː²¹/, /syː¹³/, /syː²²/

Note: syu5, syu6 - variants.

• • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: si³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /si²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sù
    • Hakka Romanization System: su^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: su²
    • Sinological IPA: /su¹¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: shu
    • Sinological IPA: /ʃu⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: su²
    • Sinological IPA: /su¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ṳ̌
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sy⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Jiangkou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sy²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sṳ́
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬy¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sy²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬy²⁴/
  • (Youyang)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sy²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /θy²⁴/
  • (Nanri)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: su²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬu¹³/
  • (Fengting)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: si²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬi²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Tainan, Magong, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chû
    • Tâi-lô: tsû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuu
    • IPA (Penang): /t͡su²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Tainan): /t͡su²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Hsinchu, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîr
    • Tâi-lô: tsîr
    • IPA (Lukang): /t͡sɨ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Kinmen): /t͡sɯ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Hsinchu, Yilan, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chî
    • Tâi-lô: tsî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cii
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si²³/
    • IPA (Yilan, Philippines): /t͡si²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡si¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ze⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsṳ̂
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɯ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyoH

Rime
Character	薯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	常恕切
Baxter	dzyoH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨʌH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɔH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiɔH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑɨə̆H/
Li Rong	/ʑiɔH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭoH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯woH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djas/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	薯
Reading #	1/1
No.	17010
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	署
Old Chinese	/*djas/
Notes	俗藷字

Definitions

薯

1. (originally) only used in 薯蕷／薯蓣 (shǔyù, “Chinese yam”)
2. General name for crops such as potato, sweet potato and yam.

Compounds

• 木薯 (mùshǔ)
• 樹薯 / 树薯 (shùshǔ)
• 涼薯 / 凉薯 (liángshǔ)
• 甘薯 (gānshǔ)
• 甘薯簽 / 甘薯签
• 甘薯葉 / 甘薯叶
• 番薯 (fānshǔ)
• 白薯 (báishǔ)
• 紅薯 / 红薯 (hóngshǔ)
• 蕃薯 (Fānshǔ)
• 薯仔
• 薯條 / 薯条 (shǔtiáo)
• 薯片 (shǔpiàn)
• 薯莨 (shǔliáng)
• 薯莨綢 / 薯莨绸 (shǔliángchóu)
• 薯蓉 (shǔróng)
• 薯蕷 / 薯蓣 (shǔyù)
• 薯藥 / 薯药
• 薯頭 / 薯头
• 薯頭薯腦 / 薯头薯脑
• 豆薯 (dòushǔ)
• 馬鈴薯 / 马铃薯 (mǎlíngshǔ)

References

• “薯”, 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–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “薯”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 140.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 薯

薯

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じょ (jo)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: いも (imo, 薯)

Korean

Hanja

薯 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薯: Hán Nôm readings: thự

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