須

See also: 须
須 U+9808, 須
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9808
← 頇
[U+9807] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 頉 →
[U+9809]

Translingual

Han character

須 (radical 181, 頁+3, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹一月金 (HHMBC), four-corner 21286, composition ⿰彡頁)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1399, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43352
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1916, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4358, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9808

Chinese

trad. 須
simp. 须*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 須
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (須) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
盨 *sraʔ
須 *so
鬚 *so
嬃 *so
蕦 *so

Pictogram (象形) : 彡 (“hair”) + 頁 (“head”) – a head with hair on its side – beard; whiskers — original character of 鬚 (OC *so). Originally a single picture, but abstracted in the seal script into a compound.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 須
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相俞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /suə̆/
Li
Rong		 /sio/
Wang
Li		 /sĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xū
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 須
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]o/
English 斯須 a short time

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 須
Reading # 1/1
No. 13955
Phonetic
component		 須
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 須
Old
Chinese		 /*so/

Definitions

須

  1. must; have to; should

Compounds

  • 不時之須／不时之须
  • 不須／不须 (bùxū)
  • 也須／也须
  • 些須／些须 (xiēxū)
  • 但須／但须
  • 何須／何须 (héxū)
  • 便須／便须
  • 務須／务须
  • 只須／只须
  • 女大須嫁／女大须嫁
  • 女長須嫁／女长须嫁
  • 必須／必须 (bìxū)
  • 應須／应须
  • 摩厲以須／摩厉以须
  • 斯須／斯须 (sīxū)
  • 是須／是须
  • 會須／会须
  • 毋須／毋须 (wúxū)
  • 無須／无须 (wúxū)
  • 直須／直须
  • 相須為命／相须为命
  • 相須而行／相须而行
  • 磨厲以須／磨厉以须
  • 磨礪以須／磨砺以须
  • 終須／终须 (zhōngxū)
  • 肩須拍／肩须拍
  • 莫須有／莫须有 (mòxūyǒu)
  • 須不是／须不是
  • 須彌山／须弥山
  • 須彌座／须弥座

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 須 – see 鬚 (“beard; whisker; antenna; feeler; etc.”).
(This character, 須, is a variant form of 鬚.)

Japanese

Kanji

須

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mandatory

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

須 (tua, tu)

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