壽
See also: 寿, 夀, and 🉢
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Translingual
| Japanese | 寿 |
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| Simplified | 寿 |
| Traditional | 壽 |
Han character
壽 (Kangxi radical 33, 士+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土弓一戈 (GNMI), four-corner 40641, composition ⿳⿳士乛工一吋)
Derived characters
- 儔 嚋 壔 嬦 嶹 幬 懤 擣 濤 隯 檮 燽 璹 禱 疇 譸 躊 軇 醻 鑄
- 翿 魗 燾 薵 籌
Descendants
- 寿
References
- KangXi: page 244, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5672
- Dae Jaweon: page 484, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 483, character 10
- Unihan data for U+58FD
Chinese
| trad. | 壽 | |
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| simp. | 寿 | |
| alternative forms | 夀 𡔽 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 壽 | ||
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| Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (壽) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
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| 禱 | *tuːʔ, *tuːs |
| 擣 | *tuːʔ |
| 檮 | *tuːʔ, *duː, *du |
| 壔 | *tuːʔ |
| 懤 | *tuːʔ, *du, *dus |
| 濤 | *duː, *duː |
| 燾 | *duː, *duːs |
| 翿 | *duː, *duːs |
| 幬 | *duːs, *du |
| 儔 | *duːs, *du |
| 譸 | *tu |
| 籌 | *du |
| 疇 | *du |
| 躊 | *du |
| 燽 | *du |
| 薵 | *du |
| 魗 | *tʰjuʔ, *dju |
| 醻 | *dju |
| 壽 | *djuʔ, *djus |
| 璹 | *djuʔ, *djuɡ |
| 鑄 | *tjos |
These forms are seen in bronze inscriptions:
- Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djuʔ, *djus) : semantic 耂 (“old”) + phonetic 𢏚／畴 (OC *du).
- Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djuʔ, *djus) : semantic 耂 (“old”) + phonetic 𠷎 () (𦓃).
- Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djuʔ, *djus) : semantic 耂 (“old”) + phonetic 𠼡 ().
The current traditional glyph is from the composition #3, with 又 becoming 寸 (耂 + 𠾉).
Pronunciation
Definitions
壽
- old age; long life
- 福壽雙全／福寿双全 ― fúshòushuāngquán ― to enjoy both felicity and longevity
- life; age
- birthday
- 壽辰／寿辰 ― shòuchén ― birthday
- 祝壽／祝寿 ― zhùshòu ― to congratulate a person (usually an elderly person) on his or her birthday
- (euphemistic) funerary (especially prepared before one's death)
- 壽材／寿材 ― shòucái ― coffin prepared before one's death
- 壽衣／寿衣 ― shòuyī ― burial shroud (prepared before one's death)
- (Wu, Cantonese) foolish; stupid; cloddish
- 壽頭／寿头 [Shanghainese] ― [z̥ɜ²² d̥ɜ⁴⁴] [IPA] ― silly person; fool; idiot
Compounds
Derived terms from 壽
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Japanese
Shinjitai | 寿 |
Kyūjitai | 壽 |
Kanji
壽
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 寿)
- longevity, long life
- congratulations
Readings
- Go-on: じゅ (ju)
- Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
- Kan’yō-on: す (su)
- Kun: ことぶき (kotobuki, 壽); ことぶく (kotobuku, 壽く); く (ku); ことほぐ (kotohogu, 壽ぐ); ぐ (gu)
- Nanori: かず (kazu); じ (ji); じゅう (jū); すっ (su'); すみ (sumi); とし (toshi); としかつ (toshikatsu); なが (naga); のぶ (nobu); のり (nori); ひさ (hisa); ひさし (hisashi); やす (yasu); やすし (yasushi)
Usage notes
Seldom used in modern Japanese. See the 寿 entry for further details.
Korean
Hanja
壽 (eum 수 (su))
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Vietnamese
Readings
壽: Hán Việt readings: thọ
壽: Nôm readings: thọ
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