See also:
U+9178, 酸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9178

[U+9177]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9179]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 164, +7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一田戈金水 (MWICE), four-corner 13647, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𭋟, 𦾹, 𩆑

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1283, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39871
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1783, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3585, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9178

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
2nd round simp.
alternative forms 𨢽

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *sloːn) : semantic + phonetic (OC *sʰlun).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *suːr ~ *swaːr (sour; be acid) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo thûr (acid; sour).

Pronunciation


Note: lhon1* - “vinegar”.
Note:
  • sng/suiⁿ - vernacular;
  • soan - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter swan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/suɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/sʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/suɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swan/
Li
Rong
/suɑn/
Wang
Li
/suɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/suɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
suān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
syun1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
suān
Middle
Chinese
‹ swan ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]ˁor/
English sour

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16434
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sloːn/

Definitions

  1. sour; tart
    葡萄   suānpútáo   sour grapes
  2. (chemistry) acid [from late 19th c.]
       yánsuān   hydrochloric acid
    Antonym: (jiǎn)
  3. (Siyi Yue, Fuqing Eastern Min) vinegar
  4. sick at heart; grieved; sad
  5. Alternative form of (suān, aching; sore; stiff)
  6. stingy; miserly
  7. narrow-minded; pedantic
  8. spoiled; rancid
  9. to satirize; to ridicule
  10. (Internet slang) jealous; envious [from 2019]
    See also: 吃不到的葡萄是酸的, sour grapes
    See also: , 吃醋
    alt. forms: 🍋
  11. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • ? Proto-Hmong-Mien: *suj (sour)

See also

Basic tastes in Chinese · 味道 (layout · text)
(tián) (suān) (xián) () 鮮味鲜味 (xiānwèi)

References

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. sour
  2. (chemistry) acid

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
さん
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (suɑn).

Pronunciation

Noun

(さん) • (san) 

  1. sourness (quality or condition)
  2. (chemistry) acid

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Noun

() • (su) 

  1. Alternative spelling of (vinegar)

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

• (san) (hangeul , revised san, McCuneReischauer san, Yale san)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: toan[1]

  1. (chemistry, biochemistry) acid

Derived terms

References

  1. Trần (1999).
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