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Translingual

Han character

(radical 119 +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火木卜人十 (FDYOJ), four-corner 90948)

  1. pure
  2. unadulterated
  3. select

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 909, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26987
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1335, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3152, character 22
  • Unihan data for U+7CB9

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsuːds
*ʔsuːds
*ʔsuːds
*sʰuːds
*sʰuːds, *suːds, *sʰroːds, *ʔsud
*sʰuːds, *ʔsuːd
*sʰuːds
*suːds
*suːds, *suds, *zud
*ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
*ʔslulʔ
*ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
*ʔsuds
*sʰuds
*zuds
*zuds
*zuds
*zuds
*suds
*suds
*suds
*ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud
*ʔsuːd
*sʰuːd
*zuːd
*zuːd, *zud
*zuːd
*suːd
*zud
*zud
*ʔsuːɡ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sʰuei⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sʰuei²¹/
Qingdao /t͡sʰue⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰuei³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sʰuei⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sʰuɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰuei²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰei³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Guiyang /suei²¹³/
Kunming /t͡sʰuei²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡sʰuəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sʰe⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuei⁴⁵/
Pingyao
Hohhot /t͡sʰuei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰø³⁵/
Suzhou /ze̞³¹/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷei⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /zai²²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰye³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰe⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰui²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰui⁵³/
Taoyuan /sui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /søy²²/
Nanning /t͡sʰui³³/
Hong Kong /søy²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sui²¹/
/t͡sʰui²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡suɔi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰo³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sui³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sui³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (16)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/sʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swiH/
Li
Rong
/suiH/
Wang
Li
/swiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/swiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
suì
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17951
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*suds/

Adjective

  1. pure

Derived terms


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(su) (hangeul , revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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