素

素 U+7D20, 素
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D20
← 紟
[U+7D1F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 紡 →
[U+7D21]

Translingual

Han character

素 (radical 120, 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手一女戈火 (QMVIF), four-corner 50903, composition ⿱龶糸)

See also

References
  • KangXi: page 918, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27300
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3368, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7D20

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 素

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 素
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (素) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
素 *saːs
傃 *saːs
嗉 *saːs
膆 *saːs
塐 *saːs

Pictogram (象形) – hands braiding thread 糸.

In modern form, top component looks like 生 without the diagonal stroke – compare 責, 青.

Pronunciation
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 素
Mandarin Beijing /su⁵¹/
Harbin /su⁵³/
Tianjin /su⁵³/
Jinan /su²¹/
Qingdao /su⁴²/
Zhengzhou /su³¹²/
Xi'an /su⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕy²¹³/
Yinchuan /su¹³/
Lanzhou /su¹³/
Ürümqi /su²¹³/
Wuhan /səu³⁵/
Chengdu /su¹³/
Guiyang /su²¹³/
Kunming /su²¹²/
Nanjing /su⁴⁴/
Hefei /su⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /su⁴⁵/
Pingyao /səu³⁵/
Hohhot /su⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /su³⁵/
Suzhou /səu⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /su⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /sɤu⁴²/
Hui Shexian /su³²⁴/
Tunxi /səu⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /səu⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /səɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /su⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /sz̩⁵³/
Taoyuan /su⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sou³³/
Nanning /ɬu³³/
Hong Kong /sou³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sɔ²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sou²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /su³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /su²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /so³⁵/
/to³⁵/
Rime
Character 素
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 桑故切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /suoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /suoH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /soH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɔH/
Li
Rong		 /soH/
Wang
Li		 /suH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /suoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sù
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 素
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ suH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ˁak-s/
English white silk

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 素
Reading # 1/1
No. 12099
Phonetic
component		 素
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 訴
Old
Chinese		 /*saːs/

Definitions

素

  1. † white silk
  2. † silk or paper used for writing
  3. plain; white
    素面  ―  sùmiàn  ―  unadorned face; face without makeup
  4. vegetarian (food)
    素菜  ―  sùcài  ―  vegetable dish; vegetarian dish
    吃素  ―  chīsù  ―  to live on a vegetarian diet; to be a vegetarian
    • 素食  ―  sùshí  ―  vegetarian foods; to maintain a vegetarian diet
  5. formerly
  6. normally
  7. element
    元素  ―  yuánsù  ―  element
    因素  ―  yīnsù  ―  factor
  8. (mathematics) prime
    素數 / 素数  ―  sùshù  ―  prime number

Compounds
Derived terms from 素

Japanese

Kanji
素

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

素 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

素 (tố, tó)

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Compounds
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