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追

追

Translingual

Han character

追 (radical 162 辵+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹口口 (YHRR), four-corner 37307, composition ⿺辶𠂤)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1256, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38836
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1739, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3829, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8FFD

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 追

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (追) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蘬 *kʰlul, *kʰrul, *kʰrulʔ
磓 *tuːl
塠 *tuːl
頧 *tuːl, *tuːlʔ
鴭 *tuːl
鎚 *tuːl, *dul, *duls
搥 *tuːl
縋 *dols
膇 *dols
槌 *dols, *dul
追 *tul
桘 *dul
巋 *kʰrul, *kʰrulʔ
歸 *klul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tul) : semantic ⻌ ‎(“movement”) + phonetic 𠂤 – moving after, pursuit.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 追
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂuei⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂuei⁴⁴/
/t͡suei⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡suei²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂuei²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂue²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂuei²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fei²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂuɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂuei⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /p͡fei³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂuei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡suei⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡suei⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡suei⁵⁵/
/nuei⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂuei⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂuəi³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂue²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suei¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡suei¹³/
Hohhot /t͡suei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sø⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡se̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sz̩ʷei³³/
Wenzhou /t͡sz̩³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕye³¹/
Tunxi /t͡se¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕyei³³/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕyəi³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sui⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sui⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tui²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡søy⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sui⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡søy⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tui⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tuoi⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ty⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tui³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sui²³/
Rime
Character 追
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 脂 (18)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 陟隹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʈˠiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈʷᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȶiuɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈjwi/
Li
Rong		 /ȶjui/
Wang
Li		 /ȶwi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȶwi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhuī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 追
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhuī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ trwij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*truj/
English pursue

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 追
Reading # 1/1
No. 17739
Phonetic
component		 追
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 追
Old
Chinese		 /*tul/
Notes 甲金文以師旅奔走追擊會意，本非形聲字

Definitions

追

  1. to chase after; to pursue
    追夢 / 追梦  ―  zhuīmèng  ―  to chase one's dreams
  2. to hunt; to track
  3. to expel

Synonyms

  • (to chase after): 追逐 (zhuīzhú)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

追

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

追 • ‎(chu, toe) (hangeul 추, 퇴, revised chu, toe, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, t'oe, Yale chwu, thoy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

追 (truy, choai)

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