菽

菽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜火水 (TYFE), four-corner 4494₇, composition ⿱艹叔)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1040, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31241
• Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3232, character 9
• Unihan data for U+83FD

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hljɯwɢ) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 叔 (OC *hljɯwɢ).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nuk (“bean, eye”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Proto-Lolo-Burmese *(s-)nok (“bean”) (whence Burmese ပဲနောက် (pai:nauk, “bean”), Lahu nɔ̂ʔ, etc.), Jingpho nòʔ.

菽

1. beans and peas collectively; pulse; legume

• “菽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: しゅく (shuku)
• Kan-on: しゅく (shuku)
• Kun: まめ (mame, 菽)

菽 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune–Reischauer suk, Yale swuk)

1. beans, peas (literary)

1. 菽麥不辨 (숙맥불변) : unable to tell bean and barley shoots apart; ignorant of the ways of things
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