秀
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Translingual
Han character
秀 (radical 115, 禾+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木弓竹尸 (HDNHS), four-corner 20227, composition ⿱禾乃)
References
- KangXi: page 849, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24911
- Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 16
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2589, character 4
- Unihan data for U+79C0
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
秀 |
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Barley ear.
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 秀 | ||
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Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (秀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
透 | *l̥ʰoːs, *hljuɡ |
莠 | *luʔ |
誘 | *luʔ |
蜏 | *luʔ, *slus, *lus |
琇 | *luʔ, *slus |
秀 | *slus |
銹 | *slus |
Pictogram (象形) : 禾 (“plant”) + 乃, resembling a fruit/an ear hanging off a plant.
Etymology
May be a causative of 褎 (OC *lɯws, “growth of seedlings”). Compare Proto-Vietic *m-loh (“to blossom”) (whence Vietnamese trổ (“to burst, to open, to display”), lổ (“naked”)), and Khmer លាស់ (lŏəh, “to grow, to blossom, to prosper”).
The meaning of “show” [noun] is a phono-semantic matching of English show.
Pronunciation
Definitions
秀
- † (of plants, especially of crops) to shoot out into ears; earing; ear
- 秀而不實 / 秀而不实 ― xiù'érbùshí ― to put forth flowers but bear no fruit
- 實種實褎,實發實秀。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Shí zhòng shí yòu, shí fā shí xiù. [Pinyin]
- Then he used it as seed, and it sprang up; It grew and came into ear.
实种实褎,实发实秀。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- † (of plants) to bear fruit
- † (of plants) to blossom
- beautiful; elegant; graceful
- to manifest; to show; to display
- 秀出 ― xiùchū ― to show
- (especially of a person) outstanding; prominent; extraordinary
- (loanword) a show
Compounds
Derived terms from 秀
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Korean
Vietnamese
Han character
秀 (tú)
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