餿

See also: 馊

餿 U+993F, 餿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-993F ← 餾 [U+993E] CJK Unified Ideographs 饀 → [U+9940]

Translingual

Han character

餿 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹難水 (OIHXE), four-corner 8774₇, composition ⿰飠叟)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1424, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44323
• Dae Jaweon: page 1949, character 37
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4465, character 3
• Unihan data for U+993F

Chinese

trad.		餿
simp.		馊

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
㮴	*suːw
艘	*suːw, *sɯːw
嫂	*suːwʔ
瞍	*sɯːw, *suːʔ
謏	*slɯːwʔ, *suːʔ, *suːs, *srɯwɢ
叜	*sluːʔ
叟	*suːʔ
傁	*suːʔ
廋	*suːʔ, *sru
醙	*suʔ, *sru
遚	*sʰrus
餿	*sru
搜	*sru
颼	*sru
溲	*sru, *sruʔ
鎪	*sru
獀	*sru
鄋	*sru
螋	*sru, *sro
騪	*sru
瘦	*srus

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

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	餿
Reading #	1/1
No.	12078
Phonetic component	叟
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	𢯱
Old Chinese	/*sru/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sōu (sou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹ / suk¹
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹seu / ⁶dzei

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sou
    • Wade–Giles: sou¹
    • Yale: sōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sou
    • Palladius: соу (sou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sau¹ / suk¹
    • Yale: sāu / sūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹ / suk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹ / sug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵/, /sʊk̚⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou, Ningbo)
    • Wugniu: ¹seu
    • MiniDict: seu^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹seu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sɤ⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /søy⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /sœʏ⁵²/
  • (Northern: Hangzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁶dzei
    • MiniDict: dzei^去
    • Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /d͡zei¹¹³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sru/

Definitions

餿

1. (of food) sour; stale; rancid

   餿飯／馊饭  ―  sōufàn  ―  stale rice or meal

2. (of one's body or clothes) unpleasantly odorous; stinky (from fermented sweat or sebum)
3. (of an idea) lousy

Compounds

• 餿主意／馊主意
• 餿水／馊水
• 餿水油／馊水油
• 餿臭／馊臭 (sōuchòu)
• 餿酸／馊酸
• 餿飯／馊饭
• 餿點子／馊点子

 

References

• “餿”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–