需

需 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一月一月中 (MBMBL), four-corner 1022₇, composition ⿱⻗而)

• 儒 嚅 壖 嬬 孺 嶿 懦 擩 濡 獳 隭 曘 檽 燸 㹘 瓀 臑 㽭 礝 穤 䇕 襦 糯 繻(𦈡) 羺 蠕 譳 䞕 轜 醹 鑐 鱬
• 𠧍 䨲 顬(颥) 䰰 薷 䰑 𤻪

• KangXi: page 1373, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42275
• Dae Jaweon: page 1883, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4062, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9700

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sno) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 而 (OC *njɯ) – to wait till the rain is over.

需

1. to await
2. to need; to require
3. necessaries; necessities
4. should; ought to; must
5. fifth hexagram of the I Ching

For the sense of "need", this word is frequently mistaken with 須／须 (xū). 需 is usually followed by a noun while 須／须 is usually followed by a verb or an adverb.

• “需”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04476

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. demand
2. request
3. need

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅ (ju, Jōyō)
• Kun: もとめる (motomeru, 需める); ぬれる (nureru); まつ (matsu)

需 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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需: Hán Nôm readings: nhu[1][2][3]

1. need; necessity