收

See also: 収

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

收 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女中人大 (VLOK), four-corner 2874₀, composition ⿰丩攵)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 468, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13110
• Dae Jaweon: page 815, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1448, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6536

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		收
alternative forms		収

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 收
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (丩) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
芁	*kriːw
荍	*ɡiw
叫	*kiːws
訆	*kiːws
嘂	*kiːws
收	*qʰljɯw, *qʰljɯws
糾	*kɯw, *krɯwʔ
朻	*kɯw, *krɯw, *krɯwʔ
丩	*kɯw, *krɯw
赳	*krɯw, *krɯwʔ
虬	*ɡrɯw
虯	*ɡrɯw
觓	*ɡrɯw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰljɯw, *qʰljɯws) : semantic 攴 + phonetic 丩 (OC *kɯw, *krɯw) – to arrest.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shōu (shou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sû
• Eastern Min (BUC): siŭ
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siu
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹seu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shou
    • Wade–Giles: shou¹
    • Yale: shōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shou
    • Palladius: шоу (šou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sau¹
    • Yale: sāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sû
    • Hakka Romanization System: su^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: su¹
    • Sinological IPA: /su²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siŭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sieu⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siu
    • Tâi-lô: siu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹seu
    • MiniDict: seu^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹seu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sɤ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: syuw, syuwH

Rime
Character	收	收
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Öffnen Sie	Öffnen Sie
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	式州切	舒救切
Baxter	syuw	syuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨu/	/ɕɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiu/	/ɕiuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiəu/	/ɕiəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕuw/	/ɕuwH/
Li Rong	/ɕiu/	/ɕiuH/
Wang Li	/ɕĭəu/	/ɕĭəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ə̯u/	/ɕi̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shōu	shòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sau1	sau3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-kiw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰljɯw/, /*qʰljɯws/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	收
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shōu
Middle Chinese	‹ syuw ›
Old Chinese	/*s-kiw/
Englisch	collect; harvest
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	收	收
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6921	6922
Phonetic component	丩	丩
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	收	狩
Old Chinese	/*qʰljɯw/	/*qʰljɯws/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 收

1. to arrest; to detain
2. to receive; to be given
3. to accept; to take in; to admit into
4. to put something away
5. to collect; to gather
6. to harvest; to reap
7. to stop; to put an end to
8. to restrain; to control
9. to withdraw; to take back

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	収
Kyūjitai	收

Kanji

收

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 収)

1. income

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: おさめる (osameru, 收める)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 收 (thu, thâu, tho, thò, dũ, thua)

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