须 · xū
must, have to, necessary
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
must, have to, necessary
- Mandarin
- xū
- Cantonese
- seoi1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+987B
- Radical
- 页 · 181
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 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 须
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
Sentence context · 1 matches
您必须排队。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #401371 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #401361 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
須 · 鬚
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- xū
- kCantonese
- seoi1
- kDefinition
- must, have to, necessary
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 181'.3
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+9808 U+9B1A
- kTGH
- 2013:1585
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xū 1299.130
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- xū 412.100,412.110
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- xū(734)