嗽 · sòu
cough, gargle, clear throat
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
cough, gargle, clear throat
- Mandarin
- sòu
- Cantonese
- sau3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 嗽 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ソウ サク ソク シュウ シュ くちすすぐ すう せくKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 수
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+55FD
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 11
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 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 嗽
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- suwH · 蘇奏 反切 · #3068
- Middle Chinese
- suwk · 桑谷 反切 · #3188
- Middle Chinese
- sraewk · 所角 反切 · #3268
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 15927 · suwH = 流開一去侯心 · suwk = 通開一入東心 · sraewk = 江開二入江生
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- sòu
- kCantonese
- sau3
- kDefinition
- cough, gargle, clear throat
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 30.11
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:3103
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- shuò,shù,sòu 10674.100
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- sòu 1094.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- sòu 349.140
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- sou(39)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- sòu粵sau3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 蘇奏 桑谷 所角
- Kangxi positions
- 0204.270
- Guangyun positions
- 439.06 450.35 465.02
- GSR references
- 1222s
- Cangjie
- RDLO
- Four-corner
- 6708.2