锈 · xiù
rust, corrode
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
rust, corrode
- Mandarin
- xiù
- Cantonese
- sau3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+9508
- Radical
- 钅 · 167
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 锈
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
銹 · 鏽
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- xiù
- kCantonese
- sau3
- kDefinition
- rust, corrode
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 167'.7
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+92B9 U+93FD
- kTGH
- 2013:2663
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xiù 1298.100
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- xiù 412.010
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- xiù(22)