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U+6240, 所
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6240

[U+623F]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6241]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

Note different composition due to different forms of , namely (in some Japanese fonts more resembles ).

Han character

(Kangxi radical 63, +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸竹一中 (HSHML), four-corner 72221, composition (GTK) or (J))

Derived characters

  • 𬾟, 𰇵, 𢯢, 𣷲, 𱡥, 𭾾, 𫿐, 𭿡, , 𫜭, , 𢀦, , 𭈝, 𰈕, 𪘷, 𲈬

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 415, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11715
  • Dae Jaweon: page 760, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2259, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6240
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sqʰraʔ): phonetic (OC *ɡʷaːʔ) + semantic (axe) – the sound of logging (the definition given in Shuowen).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-ra (place) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Burmese ရာ (ra, place).

Baxter and Sagart (2014) relates it to (OC *t.qʰaʔ, “to be at”), (OC *t.qʰaʔ-s, “place”), (OC *qʰ(r)aʔ, “place”).

Pronunciation


Note: su3 - used in 無所謂.
Note:
  • sū - literary;
  • nē̤ - vernacular.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. (in compounds) place; location
       zhùsuǒ   residence
       suǒ   toilet
       shàosuǒ   (military) post
  2. establishment for a particular function; institution
    派出   pàichūsuǒ   local police station
       suǒzhǎng   head of an establishment
    病毒   bìngdú suǒ   institute of virology
  3. Classifier for buildings, schools, hospitals, etc. all nouns using this classifier
  4. Prefix attached to verbs to form noun phrases, indicating the patient of the verb, similar to a passive participle.
       suǒ   what one uses; what one relies on; means > the reason why > therefore
       suǒ   income (literally, “what is gained”)
    見即见即   suǒjiànjísuǒ   what you see is what you get
       suǒcháng   forte (what one is good at)
       suǒwèi   to be irrelevant (literally, “to not [have or be] what one can refer to [as]”)
    電腦电脑   suǒ yòng de diànnǎo   the computer used by you
    不知   bùzhī suǒ yún   do not know what is said
  5. Used with (wéi) or (bèi) to form the passive voice.
  6. (Mainland China Hokkien) about; approximately; around (placed after (cha̍p))

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (しょ) (sho)
  • Korean: 소(所) (so)
  • Vietnamese: sở ()

Others:

Further reading

  • ”, 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), “”, 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.
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