# 瞍

| 瞍 | U+778D, &#30605; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-778D |
| ← 瞌 [U+778C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 瞎 → [U+778E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

瞍 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月山竹難水 (BUHXE), four-corner 6704$_7$, composition ⿰目叟)
* blind
* senior
* shrink

#### Derived characters

* 𤁨

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 814, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23581
* Dae Jaweon: page 1228, character 7
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2502, character 12
* Unihan data for U+778D

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 㮴 | *suːw |
| 艘 | *suːw, *sɯːw |
| 嫂 | *suːwʔ |
| 瞍 | *sɯːw, *suːʔ |
| 謏 | *slɯːwʔ, *suːʔ, *suːs, *srɯwɢ |
| 叜 | *sluːʔ |
| 叟 | *suːʔ |
| 傁 | *suːʔ |
| 廋 | *suːʔ, *sru |
| 醙 | *suʔ, *sru |
| 遚 | *sʰrus |
| 餿 | *sru |
| 搜 | *sru |
| 颼 | *sru |
| 溲 | *sru, *sruʔ |
| 鎪 | *sru |
| 獀 | *sru |
| 鄋 | *sru |
| 螋 | *sru, *sro |
| 騪 | *sru |
| 瘦 | *srus |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sɯːw, *suːʔ) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 叟 (OC *suːʔ)。

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sǒu (sou$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sau$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): só͘ / só
    (Teochew, Peng'im): sou$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sǒu
*** Zhuyin: ㄙㄡˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sǒu
*** Wade–Giles: sou$^3$
*** Yale: sǒu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soou
*** Palladius: соу (sou)
*** Sinological IPA : /soʊ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sau$^2$
*** Yale: sáu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sau$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: seo$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɐu̯³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só͘
*** Tâi-lô: sóo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sor
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sɔ⁵³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só
*** Tâi-lô: só
*** Phofsit Daibuun: soir
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /so⁵⁵⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: sou$^2$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sóu
*** Sinological IPA : /sou⁵²/
* Middle Chinese: sew
Rime :
| Character | 瞍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 蕭 (93) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 蘇彫切 |
| Baxter | sew |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /seu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /seu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /seu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sɛw/ |
| Li Rong | /seu/ |
| Wang Li | /sieu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /sieu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xiāo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | siu$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*sɯːw/, /*suːʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 瞍 | 瞍 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 12067 | 12071 |
| Phonetic component | 叟 | 叟 |
| Rime group | 幽 | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 蕭 | 叜 |
| Old Chinese | /*sɯːw/ | /*suːʔ/ |

### Definitions

瞍
* blind person

#### Compounds

* 矇瞍／蒙瞍
* 蒙瞍

### References

* “瞍”, 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–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* blind
* no pupil in the eye

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): そう (sō)、す (su)、しょう (shō)
* Kun: めくら (mekura)

## Korean
### Hanja

瞍 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)
* blind
* no pupil in the eye