庶子

Chinese

		ordinary	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (庶子)		庶	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shùzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu³ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shùzǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shùzǐh
    • Wade–Giles: shu⁴-tzŭ³
    • Yale: shù-dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuhtzyy
    • Palladius: шуцзы (šuczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu³ zi²
    • Yale: syu jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy³ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu³ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː³³ t͡siː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: syoH tsiX

Rime
Character	庶	子
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	商署切	即里切
Baxter	syoH	tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨʌH/	/t͡sɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɔH/	/t͡sɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɔH/	/t͡sieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨə̆H/	/t͡sɨX/
Li Rong	/ɕiɔH/	/t͡siəX/
Wang Li	/ɕĭoH/	/t͡sĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯woH/	/t͡siX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shù	zǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu3	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-tak-s  tsəʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljaɡs  ʔslɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庶	子
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shù	zǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ syoH ›	‹ tsiX ›
Old Chinese	/*s-tak-s/	/*tsəʔ/
English	numerous; commoner	child; gentleman, master
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	庶	子
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11905	17857
Phonetic component	庶	子
Rime group	暮	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	恕	子
Old Chinese	/*hljaɡs/	/*ʔslɯʔ/
Notes	甲金文火上爲石， 石亦聲，本炙初文

Noun

庶子

1. (chiefly historical) child of a concubine (inferior but not necessarily illegitimate in historical polygynous society)
2. illegitimate son; bastard son

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “child of a concubine”): 嫡子 (dízǐ)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (庶子):

• → Japanese: 庶子(しょし) (shoshi)
• → Korean: 서자(庶子) (seoja)
• → Vietnamese: thứ tử (庶子)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
庶	子
しょ Grade: S	し Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

庶(しょ)子(し) • (shoshi) 

1. child of a concubine
2. illegitimate child

Synonyms

• 婚外子(こんがいし) (kongaishi)
• 妾腹(しょうふく) (shōfuku)
• 非嫡出子(ひちゃくしゅつし) (hichakushutsushi)
• 脇腹(わきばら) (wakibara)

Korean

Hanja in this term
庶	子

Noun

庶子 • (seoja) (hangeul 서자)

1. Hanja form^? of 서자 (“son of a concubine”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
庶	子

Noun

庶子

1. chữ Hán form of thứ tử.