洙

洙

洙 U+6D19, 洙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D19 ← 洘 [U+6D18] CJK Unified Ideographs 洚 → [U+6D1A]

Translingual

Han character

洙 (radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水竹十木 (EHJD), four-corner 3519₀, composition ⿰氵朱)

1. name of a river in Shandong province

References

• KangXi: page 620, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17381
• Dae Jaweon: page 1016, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1608, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6D19

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		洙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朱) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
咮	*tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
株	*to
誅	*to
邾	*to
鼄	*to
跦	*to
袾	*to, *tʰjo
鴸	*to, *tjo
蛛	*to
殊	*to, *djo
趎	*do
珠	*tjo
朱	*tjo
侏	*tjo
絑	*tjo
祩	*tjo, *tjos
鮢	*tjo
硃	*tjo
姝	*tʰjo
銖	*djo
茱	*djo
洙	*djo
陎	*djo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djo) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 朱 (OC *tjo).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhū (zhu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhū
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨ
    • Wade–Giles: chu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ju
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃyː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑɨo/▼

Rime
Character	洙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	市朱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑio/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑuə̆/
Li Rong	/ʑio/
Wang Li	/ʑĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*djo/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	洙
Reading #	1/1
No.	17583
Phonetic component	朱
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	殊
Old Chinese	/*djo/

Definitions

洙

1. name of rivers in Shandong province

Compounds

洙水 洙水河

洙泗

洙溪河

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Japanese

Kanji

洙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ず (zu)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)

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Korean

Hanja

洙 (eum 수 (su))

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Vietnamese

Han character

洙: Hán Nôm readings: chua, chau, giẫy, thù

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References

• Nom Foundation