岫

See also: 峀

岫 U+5CAB, 岫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CAB ← 岪 [U+5CAA] CJK Unified Ideographs 岬 → [U+5CAC]

Translingual

Han character

岫 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 山中田 (ULW), four-corner 2576₀, composition ⿰山由)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 309, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7991
• Dae Jaweon: page 609, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 766, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5CAB

Chinese

trad.		岫
simp. #		岫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 岫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
袖	*ljɯwɢs
岫	*ljɯwɢs
牰	*ljɯwɢs, *lɯwɢs
抽	*l̥ʰɯw
妯	*l̥ʰɯw, *l'ɯwɢ
紬	*l'ɯw
怞	*l'ɯw
鮋	*l'ɯw, *ɦljɯw, *lɯw
菗	*rlɯw
宙	*l'ɯwɢs
胄	*l'ɯwɢs
冑	*l'ɯwɢs
伷	*l'ɯwɢs
駎	*l'ɯwɢs
油	*lɯw, *lɯwɢs
由	*lɯw
蚰	*lɯw
秞	*lɯw
邮	*lɯw
釉	*lɯwɢs
柚	*lɯwɢs, *l'ɯwɢ
鼬	*lɯwɢs
苖	*l'ɯːwɢ, *l̥ʰɯwɢ
笛	*l'ɯːwɢ
迪	*l'ɯːwɢ
頔	*l'ɯːwɢ
軸	*l'ɯwɢ
舳	*l'ɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ljɯwɢs) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 由 (OC *lɯw).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiù (xiu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): sêu
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): siu⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siū

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siu⁷

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): xiu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siòu
    • Wade–Giles: hsiu⁴
    • Yale: syòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiow
    • Palladius: сю (sju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zau⁶
    • Yale: jauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯²²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sêu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛu²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: siu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siū
    • Tâi-lô: siū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siu²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siu³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siu⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siū
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siu¹¹/
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: xiu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /siu³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: zjuwH

Rime
Character	岫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似祐切
Baxter	zjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ziuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ziəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zuwH/
Li Rong	/ziuH/
Wang Li	/zĭəuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljɯwɢs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	岫
Reading #	1/1
No.	15511
Phonetic component	由
Rime group	奧
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	岫
Old Chinese	/*ljɯwɢs/

Definitions

岫

1. mountain peak
2. cave; cavern
3. (Southern Min) nest, den or lair of animals

Compounds

• 做岫 (Min Nan)
• 出岫
• 危岫
• 吳岫 / 吴岫
• 咬岫 (Min Nan)
• 孵岫 (Min Nan)
• 山岫
• 岫壑
• 岫居
• 岫幌
• 峻岫
• 峭岫
• 峰岫
• 崑岫 / 昆岫
• 嵒岫 / 岩岫
• 嵐岫 / 岚岫
• 嶺岫 / 岭岫
• 巒岫 / 峦岫
• 巖岫 / 岩岫
• 川岫
• 幽岫
• 後岫 / 后岫 (Min Nan)
• 徙岫 (Min Nan)
• 接後岫 / 接后岫 (Min Nan)
• 斷岫 / 断岫
• 望岫息心
• 林岫
• 楚岫
• 楚岫瑤姬 / 楚岫瑶姬
• 楚岫秦雲 / 楚岫秦云
• 沙岫
• 煙岫 / 烟岫
• 煙嵐雲岫 / 烟岚云岫
• 狗岫 (Min Nan)
• 狗蟻岫 / 狗蚁岫 (Min Nan)
• 玉岫
• 穴岫
• 穹岫
• 窮岫 / 穷岫
• 筆岫 / 笔岫
• 筊岫 (Min Nan)
• 繳岫 / 缴岫 (Min Nan)
• 虎岫
• 蜂岫 (Min Nan)
• 蜂岫癰 / 蜂岫痈 (Min Nan)
• 蟻岫 / 蚁岫
• 豬岫 / 猪岫 (Min Nan)
• 賊岫 / 贼岫 (Min Nan)
• 遠岫 / 远岫
• 重岫
• 金岫
• 陽岫 / 阳岫
• 雨岫
• 雪岫
• 雲岫 / 云岫
• 霄岫
• 霞岫
• 霽岫 / 霁岫
• 靈岫 / 灵岫
• 香岫
• 驪岫 / 骊岫
• 鱣岫 / 鳣岫
• 鳥仔岫 / 鸟仔岫 (Min Nan)
• 鳥岫 / 鸟岫 (Min Nan)
• 黃岫 / 黄岫
• 龍岫 / 龙岫

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “岫”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 267.

Japanese

Kanji

岫

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. cave
2. summit

Readings

• Go-on: じゅ (ju)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: くき (kuki, 岫)、みさき (misaki, 岫)、みね (mine, 岫)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
岫
くき Hyōgai
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.

Noun

岫(くき) • (kuki) 

1. (archaic or obsolete) cave
2. (archaic or obsolete) summit, mountaintop

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
岫
しゅう Hyōgai
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 岫 (MC zjuwH).

Noun

岫(しゅう) • (shū) 

1. (rare) cave

Korean

Hanja

岫 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su)

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