須

須 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+3, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹一月金 (HHMBC), four-corner 2128₆, composition ⿰彡頁)

• 𠾫, 𣛪, 𦄼(𬘳), 𨅑, 𨬗, 𣌌, 𢊼, 蕦, 𥳗, 𩅺, 鬚, 嬃(媭), 𢄼(𫷈), 澃, 𩒹, 盨(𪾔), 䇓, 𩓾, 𦅓, 𮖶, 頾, 𢒷, 𩔾, 𪆦, 𡡓, 䫇, 𩓣, 頿, 䫠

• 须 (Simplified form of 須 and 鬚 in mainland China)

• ス (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1399, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43352
• Dae Jaweon: page 1916, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4358, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9808

Historical forms of the character 須
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : 彡 (“hair”) + 頁 (“head”) – a head with hair on its side – beard; whiskers — original character of 鬚 (OC *so). Originally a single picture, but abstracted in the seal script into a compound.

“to wait”

Schuessler (2007), reconstructing the Old Chinese as *sno, suggests that it is probably a causative derivation from 懦 (OC *njo, “weak; soft”), literally “to make (time) pliant”.

須

1. must; have to; should
2. (alt. form 䇓／𰩧, 𩓣) ^† to wait
3. (alt. form 需) ^† to need
4. (literary) to halt; to bring to an end
5. (literary) to use
6. (literary, or in compounds) short moment

   須臾／须臾  ―  xūyú  ―  in an instant

7. a surname: Xu

• (must): 須要／须要 (xūyào)
• (to use):

• (to halt):

• (short moment):

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

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04541
• “須”, 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–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. mandatory, necessary
2. moment, short while
3. kanji used to transliterate Buddhist terms borrowed from Sanskrit

• Go-on: す (su, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: すべからく (subekaraku, 須く); もちいる (mochiiru, 須いる)^{←もちゐる (motiwiru, 須ゐる, historical)}; もとめる (motomeru, 須める)
• Nanori: まつ (matsu); もち (mochi); もとむ (motomu)

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨su⟩ and ⟨zu⟩.

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

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須 (transliteration needed)

1. Nôm form of tu (“door”).

須: Hán Nôm readings: tua, tu

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