蓿

蓿 U+84FF, 蓿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84FF ← 蓾 [U+84FE] CJK Unified Ideographs 蔀 → [U+8500]

Translingual

Han character

蓿 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿十人日 (TJOA), four-corner 4426₁, composition ⿱艹宿)

1. clover, lucerne

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1053, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31747
• Dae Jaweon: page 1515, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3285, character 1
• Unihan data for U+84FF

Chinese

trad.		蓿
simp. #		蓿

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
宿	*suɡs, *suɡ
蓿	*suɡ
縮	*sruɡ
樎	*sruɡ
蹜	*sruɡ
摍	*sruɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *suɡ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 宿 (OC *suɡs, *suɡ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sù (su⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): suk¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeh⁶ / syeh⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sù
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sù
    • Wade–Giles: su⁴
    • Yale: sù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
    • Palladius: су (su)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: suk¹
    • Yale: sūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: sug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: soeh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬœʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: syeh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøʔ²/

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• Middle Chinese: sjuwk

Rime
Character	蓿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息逐切
Baxter	sjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/siuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/siuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/suwk̚/
Li Rong	/siuk̚/
Wang Li	/sĭuk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	su
Expected Cantonese Reflex	suk1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*suɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蓿
Reading #	1/1
No.	12106
Phonetic component	宿
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	肅
Old Chinese	/*suɡ/
Notes	見史記，漢書作宿

Definitions

蓿

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References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蓿”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 269.

Japanese

Kanji

蓿

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. clover
2. medic

Readings

• Go-on: すく (suku)
• Kan-on: しゅく (shuku)

Korean

Hanja

蓿 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune–Reischauer suk, Yale swuk)

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