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See also:
U+9B1A, 鬚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B1A

[U+9B19]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9B1B]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

  • 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

More information trad., simp. ...

Glyph origin

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

Originally written , see there for more.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nwat ~ *s-nut (mouth) (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Tibetan སྣོད (snod, vessel), Burmese နှုတ် (hnut, mouth).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ciu1 - vernacular;
  • sy1 - literary.

More information Rime, Character ...
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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. beard; whisker (Classifier: c)
    [Cantonese]   tai3 sou1 [Jyutping]   to shave one's beard
          tiger's whiskers
  2. antenna; feeler
  3. whisker-like

Synonyms

Compounds

References

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Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. beard

Readings

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

Etymology

More information Kanji in this term ...
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
ひげ
[noun] (loosely) facial hair on the upper lip region, the chin, and the cheeks
[noun] beard, goatee (chin hair)
[noun] (figurative) whiskers (of animals)
[noun] (figurative) antennae (of insects)
[noun] (figurative) corn silk
Alternative spellings
,
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

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

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(eumhun 수염 (suyeom su))

  1. hanja form? of (beard)

Compounds

References

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

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: tu, tua

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