吮

吮 U+542E, 吮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-542E ← 吭 [U+542D] CJK Unified Ideographs 启 → [U+542F]

Translingual

Han character

吮 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口戈竹山 (RIHU), four-corner 6301₀, composition ⿰口允)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 178, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3356
• Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 597, character 4
• Unihan data for U+542E

Chinese

simp. and trad.		吮
alternative forms		損／损 Cantonese, nonstadard

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
唆	*sloːl
梭	*sloːl
葰	*sloːlʔ, *sroːlʔ, *slul
誜	*sroːls
朘	*ʔslon
捘	*ʔsluːls, *ʔsluːns, *sʰlun
荾	*slul
酸	*sloːn
狻	*sloːn
痠	*sloːn
鋑	*ʔslon
脧	*ʔsluːl
悛	*sʰlon
吮	*zlonʔ, *ɦljunʔ
萒	*ɡronʔ, *lonʔ
沇	*lonʔ
抁	*lonʔ
馻	*lonʔ, *lunʔ
兖	*lonʔ
渷	*lonʔ
兗	*lonʔ
焌	*ʔsluːns, *ʔsluns, *sʰlud
允	*lunʔ
狁	*lunʔ
玧	*lunʔ
俊	*ʔsluns
晙	*ʔsluns, *sluns
餕	*ʔsluns
畯	*ʔsluns
駿	*ʔsluns
竣	*sʰlun
皴	*sʰlun
逡	*sʰlun
踆	*sʰlun
夋	*sʰlun
埈	*sluns
陖	*sluns
鵕	*sluns
浚	*sluns
峻	*sluns

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	吮	吮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	船 (27)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	食尹切	徂兖切
Baxter	zywinX	dzjwenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʑiuɪnX/	/d͡ziuᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʑʷinX/	/d͡zʷiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʑjuenX/	/d͡zjuænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʑwinX/	/d͡zwianX/
Li Rong	/d͡ʑiuĕnX/	/d͡ziuɛnX/
Wang Li	/d͡ʑĭuĕnX/	/d͡zĭwɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡ʑʰi̯uĕnX/	/d͡zʱi̯wɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shùn	juàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seon6	zyun6

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	吮	吮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16440	16451
Phonetic component	允	允
Rime group	元	文
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	雋	盾
Old Chinese	/*zlonʔ/	/*ɦljunʔ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǔn (shun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun⁵ / seon⁵ / cyun⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhiôn
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhńg / chn̄g / chūiⁿ / ún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shǔn
    • Wade–Giles: shun³
    • Yale: shwǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoen
    • Palladius: шунь (šunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: syun⁵ / seon⁵ / cyun⁵
    • Yale: syúhn / séuhn / chyúhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn⁵ / soen⁵ / tsyn⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun⁵ / sên⁵ / qun⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːn¹³/, /sɵn¹³/, /t͡sʰyːn¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: qion^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qion¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰi̯on²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhńg / chn̄g / chūiⁿ / ún
    • Tâi-lô: tshńg / tsn̄g / tsuīnn / ún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhngr, zng, zvui, uon
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵³/, /t͡sŋ̍²²/, /t͡suĩ²²/, /un⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵⁵⁴/, /t͡sŋ̍⁴¹/, /t͡suĩ⁴¹/, /un⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵³/, /t͡sŋ̍²²/, /t͡suĩ²²/, /un⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵³/, /t͡sŋ̍³³/, /t͡suĩ³³/, /un⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴¹/, /t͡sŋ̍³³/, /t͡suĩ³³/, /un⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: zywinX, dzjwenX

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zlonʔ/, /*ɦljunʔ/

Definitions

吮

1. to suck (with one's mouth)

Compounds

• 吮吸 (shǔnxī)
• 吸吮 (xīshǔn)
• 吮疽
• 吮癰舐痔／吮痈舐痔
• 舐癰吮痔／舐痈吮痔
• 舔吮

 

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		吮
alternative forms		㖺 𦧊 啃 嗑

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhńg / chhúiⁿ

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhńg
    • Tâi-lô: tshńg
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhngr
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhúiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tshuínn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhvuie
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuĩ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡sʰuĩ⁵³/

Definitions

吮

1. (Hokkien) to pick off or strip off or scrape off edible food from inedible material like bone, shell, or seeds (usually with one's teeth and/or tongue)
2. (Hokkien) to gnaw; to nibble off causing holes (by insects)
3. (Hokkien) to comb; to pluck or pick off dirt (as a bird grooms itself with its beak)
4. (Hokkien, figurative) to nitpick; to find fault; to be fussy

Compounds

• 𠢕吮食
• 吮字眼
• 吮排骨
• 吮査某
• 吮核
• 吮毛
• 吮瓜子
• 吮空
• 吮空吮縫／吮空吮缝
• 吮肉骨
• 吮錢／吮钱
• 吮食
• 吮骨 (shǔngǔ)
• 吮骨頭／吮骨头
• 吮魚頭／吮鱼头

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00532

Japanese

Kanji

吮

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)、しゅん (shun)
• Kun: すう (suu, 吮う)

Korean

Hanja

吮 (eum 전 (jeon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

吮: Hán Nôm readings: duyện, giỏn, duyên

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