胥

胥 U+80E5, 胥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-80E5 ← 胤 [U+80E4] CJK Unified Ideographs 胦 → [U+80E6]

Translingual

Han character

胥 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓人月 (NOB), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿱疋月)

Derived characters

• 婿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 980, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29406
• Dae Jaweon: page 1432, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2064, character 10
• Unihan data for U+80E5

Chinese

trad.		胥
simp. #		胥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (疋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
疋	*ŋraːʔ, *sŋra, *sŋraʔ
蝑	*sŋas, *sŋa
壻	*sŋeːs
婿	*sŋeːs
胥	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
稰	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
楈	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
諝	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
湑	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
揟	*sŋa
醑	*sŋaʔ
糈	*sŋaʔ, *sŋraʔ
楚	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ, *sŋ̊ʰras
礎	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
憷	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
齼	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
濋	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
儊	*sŋ̊ʰras
綀	*sŋra
疎	*sŋra
疏	*sŋra, *sŋras
蔬	*sŋra
梳	*sŋra

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sŋa, *sŋaʔ) : phonetic 疋 (OC *ŋraːʔ, *sŋra, *sŋraʔ) + semantic 月 (“flesh”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xū (xu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sy¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): su

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syu
    • Wade–Giles: hsü¹
    • Yale: syū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seoi¹
    • Yale: sēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sy¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬy⁵³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su
    • Tâi-lô: su
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: sjo, sjoX

Rime
Character	胥	胥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	相居切	私吕切
Baxter	sjo	sjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨʌ/	/sɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/siɔ/	/siɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/siɔ/	/siɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɨə̆/	/sɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/siɔ/	/siɔX/
Wang Li	/sĭo/	/sĭoX/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯wo/	/si̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xū	xǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi1	seoi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋa/, /*sŋaʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	胥	胥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11767	11775
Phonetic component	疋	疋
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	胥
Old Chinese	/*sŋa/	/*sŋaʔ/
Notes		同諝

Definitions

胥

1. (historical) officer who was responsible for capturing thieves
2. (literary) all
3. (Classical) mutually
4. a surname

Compounds

• 儲胥／储胥
• 吏胥
• 抄胥
• 村胥
• 淪胥／沦胥
• 胥吏 (xūlì)
• 胥命
• 胥役
• 胥徒
• 胥濤／胥涛
• 胥爢
• 胥紕／胥纰
• 胥靡 (xūmí)
• 胥頭／胥头
• 華胥／华胥 (Huáxū)
• 鈔胥／钞胥
• 閭胥／闾胥
• 隸胥／隶胥
• 靈胥／灵胥

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “胥”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 267.

Japanese

Kanji

胥

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: そ (so)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: あい (ai)、みな (mina, 胥)、みる (miru, 胥る)

Korean

Hanja

胥 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

胥: Hán Nôm readings: tư

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References

• Nom Foundation