巣

See also: 巢

巣	U+5DE3, 巣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DE3

← 巢
[U+5DE2]

CJK Unified Ideographs

巤 →
[U+5DE4]

Translingual

Han character

巣 (Kangxi radical 47, 巛+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火田木 (FWD), four-corner 9090₄, composition ⿱𭕄果)

Related characters

巢 (Kyūjitai form of 巣)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 531, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8696
Dae Jaweon: page 919, character 23
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1221, character 1
Unihan data for U+5DE3

Chinese

Glyph origin

Unorthodox variant of 巢 (cháo) found in a moveable type copy of Biographies of Exemplary Women 《列女傳》. First attested in 《宋元以來俗字譜》, a variant forms dictionary compiled in 1930 that records unorthodox forms (俗字 (súzì)) that have existed since the Song dynasty.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 巣 – see 巢 (“nest; lair; den; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 巢).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01147-001

Japanese

Shinjitai	巣
Kyūjitai	巢

Kanji

巣

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 巢)

nest

Readings

Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←ぜう (zeu, historical)}
Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
Kun: す (su, 巣, Jōyō)、すくう (sukuu, 巣くう)

Compounds

巣(そう)窟(くつ) (sōkutsu)
燕(えん)巣(そう) (ensō)
帰(き)巣(そう) (kisō)
魚(ぎょ)巣(そう) (gyosō)
就(しゅう)巣(そう) (shūsō)
精(せい)巣(そう) (seisō)
卵(らん)巣(そう) (ransō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
巣
す Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
巢 (kyūjitai) 栖窼

From Old Japanese. Found in the Kojiki of 712,^[1] and included in the Man'yōshū with the phonetic man'yōgana spelling 須 (su).^[2] In turn, from Proto-Japonic *su.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) す [súꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[3]^[4]^[5]
(Tokyo) す [sù] (Heiban – [0])^[3]^[4]^[5]
IPA^(key): [sɨ]

Noun

巣(す) • (su)

巣, 栖, 窼: nest, hive, den
クモの巣(す)
kumo no su
spider's web
- c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 5, poem 892:
  
  可麻度柔播(かまどには)／火氣布伎多弖受(かきふきたてず)／許之伎尓波(こしきには)／久毛能(くもの)須(す)可伎弖(かきて)... [Man'yōgana]
  竃(かまど)には／火気(かき)吹(ふ)き立(た)てず／甑(こしき)には／蜘蛛(くも)の巣(す)かきて... [Modern spelling]
  kamado ni pa / kaki pukitatezu / kosiki ni pa / kumo no su kakite...
  without blowing on the embers in the woodstove, and with cobwebs in the steamer...

Derived terms

巣(す)穴(あな) (suana)
巣(す)入(い)り (suiri)
巣(す)食(く)う (sukuu)
巣(す)口(ぐち) (suguchi)
巣(す)箱(ばこ) (subako)
巣(す)板(ばん) (suban)
巣(す)守(もり) (sumori)
巣(す)立(だ)ち (sudachi)
巣立(すだ)つ (sudatsu)
空(あ)き巣(す) (akisu)
浮(うき)巣(す) (ukisu)
燕(えん)巣(ず) (enzu)
懸(カケ)巣(ス) (kakesu)
蜘(く)蛛(も)の巣(す) (kumo no su)
巣(す)鷹(たか) (sutaka)
天(てん)狗(ぐ)巣(す) (tengusu)
蜂(はち)巣(す) (hachisu)
古(ふる)巣(す) (furusu)

References

^ “巣・栖・窼”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^
c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 5, poem 892:
, text available online here
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“巣”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

巣 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so)

alternative form of 巢 (“nest”)