秀

秀 U+79C0, 秀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79C0
← 禿
[U+79BF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 私 →
[U+79C1]

Translingual

Han character

秀 (radical 115, 禾+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木弓竹尸 (HDNHS), four-corner 20227, composition ⿱禾乃)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 849, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24911
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2589, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+79C0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 秀
Barley ear.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 秀
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (秀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
透 *l̥ʰoːs, *hljuɡ
莠 *luʔ
誘 *luʔ
蜏 *luʔ, *slus, *lus
琇 *luʔ, *slus
秀 *slus
銹 *slus

Pictogram (象形) : 禾 (“plant”) + 乃, resembling a fruit/an ear hanging off a plant.

Etymology

May be a causative of 褎 (OC *ljɯws, *lɯws, “growth of seedlings”). Compare Proto-Vietic *m-loh (“to blossom”) (whence Vietnamese trổ (“to burst, to open, to display”), lổ (“naked”)), and Khmer លាស់ (lŏəh, “to grow, to blossom, to prosper”).

The meaning of “show” [noun] is a phono-semantic matching of English show.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 秀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /siəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /suwH/
Li
Rong		 /siuH/
Wang
Li		 /sĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiù
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 秀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjuwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s-l]u(ʔ)-s/
English to flower

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 秀
Reading # 1/1
No. 13934
Phonetic
component		 秀
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 秀
Old
Chinese		 /*slus/

Definitions

秀

  1. † (of plants) to shoot out into ears; earing; ear
    秀而不實 / 秀而不实  ―  xiù'érbùshí  ―  to put forth flowers but bear no fruit
  2. † (of plants) to bear fruit
  3. † (of plants) to blossom
  4. beautiful; elegant; graceful
    秀麗 / 秀丽  ―  xiùlì  ―  pretty
    秀美  ―  xiùměi  ―  elegant
    眉清目秀  ―  méiqīngmùxiù  ―  with delicate features
  5. to manifest; to show; to display
    秀出  ―  xiùchū  ―  to show
  6. (especially of a person) outstanding; prominent; extraordinary
    優秀 / 优秀  ―  yōuxiù  ―  excellent
    俊秀  ―  jùnxiù  ―  elegant; pretty
  7. (loanword) a show
    脫口秀 / 脱口秀  ―  tuōkǒuxiù  ―  talk show
    時裝秀 / 时装秀  ―  shízhuāngxiù  ―  fashion show

Synonyms

  • (a show): (Cantonese) 騷／骚 (sou1)

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (秀):
  • Japanese: 秀 (しゅ) (shu)
  • Korean: 수 (秀, su)
  • Vietnamese: tú (秀)

Japanese

Kanji

秀

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. excellent, outstanding

Readings

Kanji in this term
秀
しゅう
Grade: S
on’yomi

Proper noun

秀 (hiragana しゅう, rōmaji Shū)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

秀 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

秀 (tú)

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