銹

See also: 锈

銹 U+92B9, 銹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-92B9 ← 銸 [U+92B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 銺 → [U+92BA]

Translingual

Traditional	鏽
Shinjitai (extended)	銹
Simplified	锈

Han character

銹 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 金竹木尸 (CHDS), four-corner 8212₇, composition ⿰釒秀)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1306, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40426
• Dae Jaweon: page 1808, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4208, character 16
• Unihan data for U+92B9

Chinese

trad.		銹/鏽
simp.		锈

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *slus) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 秀 (OC *slus).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiù (xiu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau³

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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: sau³
    • Yale: sau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*slus/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	銹
Reading #	1/1
No.	13937
Phonetic component	秀
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	秀
Old Chinese	/*slus/
Notes	同鏥，或作鏽又息六切

Definitions

銹

1. Alternative form of 鏽 / 锈 (xiù, “rust; to rust”)

Compounds

• 不銹鋼 / 不锈钢 (bùxiùgāng)
• 生銹 / 生锈 (shēngxiù)
• 鐵銹 / 铁锈 (tiěxiù)

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04351-001

Japanese

Kanji

銹

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rust

Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: さび (sabi, 銹)、さびる (sabiru, 銹びる)

Compounds

• 鉄銹
• 銅銹
• 発銹
• 不銹鋼
• 防銹

Etymology

Kanji in this term
銹
さび Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 銹 – see the following entry.

【錆さび】J [noun] rust Alternative spelling 鏽

(This term, 銹, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

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

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