髓

See also: 膸

髓	U+9AD3, 髓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AD3

← 髒
[U+9AD2]

CJK Unified Ideographs

體 →
[U+9AD4]

Translingual

Han character

髓 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 月月卜大月 (BBYKB), four-corner 7423₂, composition ⿰骨遀)

References

KangXi: page 1451, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45289
Dae Jaweon: page 1977, character 41
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4418, character 4
Unihan data for U+9AD3

Chinese

trad.		髓
simp. ^#		髓
alternative forms		髄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隓) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
鬌	ʔl'oːlʔ, l'oːlʔ, *l'ol
隋	l̥ʰoːlʔ, l'oːlʔ, *ljol
墮	l̥ʰoːlʔ, l'oːlʔ, *hlol
媠	l̥ʰoːlʔ, l'oːls
橢	*l̥ʰoːlʔ
嫷	l̥ʰoːls, l'oːlʔ
毻	l̥ʰoːls, l̥ʰoːds
堶	*l'oːl
憜	*l'oːlʔ
惰	l'oːlʔ, l'oːls
嶞	*l'oːlʔ
髓	*slolʔ
瀡	slolʔ, slols
隨	*ljol
隓	*hlol
隳	*hlol
撱	*lolʔ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *suj (“marrow”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): suǐ (sui³)
(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): sùi
(Meixian, Guangdong): sui³
Min Dong (BUC): chōi
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chhé / chhér / chhóe / súi / chhúi
(Teochew, Peng'im): cuê²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: suǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: suěi
  - Wade–Giles: sui³
  - Yale: swěi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soei
  - Palladius: суй (suj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sweɪ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: seoi⁵
  - Yale: séuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sùi
  - Hakka Romanization System: suiˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sui²
  - Sinological IPA: /su̯i¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: sui³
  - Sinological IPA: /suɪ³¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: chōi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰøy³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Magong, Hsinchu)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhé
  - Tâi-lô: tshé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhea
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡sʰe⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhér
  - Tâi-lô: tshér
  - IPA (Lukang): /t͡sʰə⁵⁵/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰə⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Kinmen): /t͡sʰə⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Yilan, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taichung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhóe
  - Tâi-lô: tshué
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhoea
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰue⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou, Yilan, Tainan): /t͡sʰue⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: súi
  - Tâi-lô: suí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: suie
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sui⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sui⁵³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhúi
  - Tâi-lô: tshuí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhuie
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰui⁵³/

Note:

chhé/chhér/chhóe - vernacular;
súi/chhúi - literary.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cuê²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshué
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰue⁵²/

Middle Chinese: /siuᴇ^X/

Rime
Character	髓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	支 (12)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息委切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuᴇ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷiɛ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuɛ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swiə̆^X/
Li Rong	/siue^X/
Wang Li	/sǐwe^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/swie̯^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-lojʔ/
(Zhengzhang): /*slolʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	髓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	suǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ sjwe^X ›
Old Chinese	/*s-lojʔ/
English	marrow
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	髓
Reading #	1/1
No.	5433
Phonetic component	隓
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	髓
Old Chinese	/*slolʔ/

Definitions

髓

bone marrow
essence; substance

Compounds

延髓 (yánsuǐ)
心髓 (xīnsuǐ)
恨入心髓 (hènrùxīnsuǐ)
恨入骨髓 (hènrùgǔsuǐ)
牙髓 (yásuǐ)
玉髓 (yùsuǐ)
白髓 (báisuǐ)
石髓 (shísuǐ)

精髓 (jīngsuǐ)
脊髓 (jǐsuǐ)
食髓知味
骨髓 (gǔsuǐ)
骨髓炎 (gǔsuǐyán)
骨髓腔 (gǔsuǐqiāng)
髓核 (suǐhé)
髓腔 (suǐqiāng)

髓鞘 (suǐqiào)
紅髓／红髓 (hóngsuǐ)
腦髓／脑髓 (nǎosuǐ)
頭髓／头髓
髓質／髓质 (suǐzhì)
齒髓／齿髓
龍肝鳳髓／龙肝凤髓 (lónggānfèngsuǐ)

Japanese

Shinjitai	髄
Kyūjitai	髓

Kanji

髓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 髄)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ずい (zui); すい (sui)
Kun: ずい (zui)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 髓 (MC siuᴇ^X). Recorded as Middle Korean 슈〯 (syǔ) (Yale: syu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource髓 (eumhun 뼛골 수 (ppyeotgol su))

Hanja form^? of 수 (“bone marrow”).

Compounds

수초 (髓鞘, sucho)
골수 (骨髓, golsu)
뇌수 (腦髓, noesu)
연수 (延髓, yeonsu)
정수 (精髓, jeongsu)
진수 (眞髓, jinsu)
척수 (脊髓, cheoksu)
수액 (髓液, suaek)
골수염 (骨髓炎, golsuyeom)

References

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

Vietnamese

Han character

髓: Hán Nôm readings: tủy/tuỷ

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