髄

See also: 髓
髄 U+9AC4, 髄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AC4
← 髃
[U+9AC3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 髅 →
[U+9AC5]

Translingual

Han character

髄 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+9, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月月卜大月 (BBYKB) or X月月卜大 (XBBYK), composition ⿰骨迶)

  1. bone marrow
  2. essences, substances

References
  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1450, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45240
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4416, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9AC4

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 髄 – see 髓 (“bone marrow; essence; substance”).
(This character, 髄, is a variant form of 髓.)

Japanese

Shinjitai

 髄

Kyūjitai

 髓

Kanji
髄

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 髓)

  1. bone marrow

Readings

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
髄
ずい
Grade: S
kan’yōon
Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 髓 (MC siuᴇX, “bone marrow”). First appears in the late 800s, early 900s.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

髄(ずい) • (zui) 

  1. bone marrow
  2. the pith of a plant
  3. (figurative) the pith or essence of something, such as a skill or cultural thing

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
髄
ずん
Grade: S
irregular
Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

Shift from zui above. First appears in the early 1700s.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [(d͡)zɨ̃ᵝɴ]

Noun

髄(ずん) • (zun) 

  1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) the center of something
  2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) something straight
  3. (archaic, possibly obsolete) an exact direction, an immediate area

Etymology 3
Kanji in this term
髄
なずき
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 髄 – see the following entry.
【脳なずき】6
[noun] (archaic, anatomy) the brain
[noun] (archaic, by extension) the head
(This term, 髄, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 4
Kanji in this term
髄
すね
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
髓 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese. Appears in the 新訳華厳経音義私記 (Shin'yaku Kegon-kyō Ongi Shiki, “Private Record of Sounds and Meanings of the New Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra”) of 794 CE.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [sɨᵝne̞]

Noun

髄(すね) • (sune) 

  1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) bone marrow

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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