髄

髄

See also: 髓

髄 U+9AC4, 髄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AC4 ← 髃 [U+9AC3] CJK Unified Ideographs 髅 → [U+9AC5]

Translingual

Han character

髄 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+9, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月月卜大月 (BBYKB) or X月月卜大 (XBBYK), composition ⿰骨迶)

1. bone marrow
2. essences, substances

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1450, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45240
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4416, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9AC4

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 髄 – see 髓 (“bone marrow; essence; substance”). (This character, 髄, is a variant form of 髓.)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	髄
Kyūjitai	髓

Kanji

髄

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 髓)

1. bone marrow

Readings

• Go-on: すい (sui)
• Kan-on: すい (sui)
• Kan’yō-on: ずい (zui, Jōyō)
• Kun: すね (sune); なずき (nazuki)^{←なづき (naduki, historical)}
• Nanori: なか (naka)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
髄
ずい Grade: S
kan’yōon

Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 髓 (MC siuᴇ^X, “bone marrow”). First appears in the late 800s, early 900s.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ず​い [zúꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [(d͡)zɨᵝi]

Noun

髄(ずい) • (zui)  (kyūjitai 髓)

1. bone marrow
2. the pith of a plant
3. (figuratively) the pith or essence of something, such as a skill or cultural thing

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
髄
ずん Grade: S
irregular

Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

Shift from zui above. First appears in the early 1700s.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [(d͡)zɨ̃ᵝɴ]

Noun

髄(ずん) • (zun)  (kyūjitai 髓)

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) the center of something
2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) something straight
3. (archaic, possibly obsolete) an exact direction, an immediate area

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
髄
なずき Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 髄 – see the following entry.

【脳なずき】6 [noun] (archaic, anatomy) the brain [noun] (archaic, by extension) the head

(This term, 髄, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
髄
すね Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese. Appears in the 新訳華厳経音義私記 (Shin'yaku Kegon-kyō Ongi Shiki, “Private Record of Sounds and Meanings of the New Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra”) of 794 CE.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɨᵝne̞]

Noun

髄(すね) • (sune)  (kyūjitai 髓)

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) bone marrow

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

• “髄”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
• “髄”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984