瞍

瞍	U+778D, 瞍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-778D

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[U+778C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

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[U+778E]

Translingual

Han character

瞍 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月山竹難水 (BUHXE), four-corner 6704₇, composition ⿰目叟)

Derived characters

𤁨

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 814, character 24
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23581
Dae Jaweon: page 1228, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2502, character 12
Unihan data for U+778D

Chinese

trad.		瞍
simp. ^#		瞍
alternative forms		𮲦

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
㮴	*suːw
艘	suːw, sɯːw
嫂	*suːwʔ
瞍	sɯːw, suːʔ
謏	slɯːwʔ, suːʔ, suːs, srɯwɢ
叜	*sluːʔ
叟	*suːʔ
傁	*suːʔ
廋	suːʔ, sru
醙	suʔ, sru
遚	*sʰrus
餿	*sru
搜	*sru
颼	*sru
溲	sru, sruʔ
鎪	*sru
獀	*sru
鄋	*sru
螋	sru, sro
騪	*sru
瘦	*srus

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sɯːw, *suːʔ): semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 叟 (OC *suːʔ)。

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sǒu (sou³)

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sau²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): só͘ / só

(Teochew, Peng'im): sou²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sǒu
  - Wade–Giles: sou³
  - Yale: sǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soou
  - Palladius: соу (sou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sau²
  - Yale: sáu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sau²
  - Guangdong Romanization: seo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só͘
  - Tâi-lô: sóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sor
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sɔ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só
  - Tâi-lô: só
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /so⁵⁵⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sou²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sóu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou⁵²/

Middle Chinese: sew

Rime
Character	瞍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	蘇彫切
Baxter	sew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/seu/
Pan Wuyun	/seu/
Shao Rongfen	/seu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛw/
Li Rong	/seu/
Wang Li	/sieu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/sieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sɯːw/, /*suːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瞍	瞍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12067	12071
Phonetic component	叟	叟
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	蕭	叜
Old Chinese	/*sɯːw/	/*suːʔ/

Definitions

瞍

blind person

Compounds

矇瞍 / 蒙瞍
蒙瞍

References

“瞍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

瞍

(Hyōgai kanji)

blind
no pupil in the eye

Readings

On (unclassified): そう (sō)、す (su)、しょう (shō)
Kun: めくら (mekura)

Korean

Hanja

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

blind
no pupil in the eye