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隹
隹
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Translingual
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Short tailed bird
Han character
隹 (radical 172 隹+0, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人土 (OG) or X人土 (XOG), four-corner 20214/20215, composition ⿰亻⿻一主)
- (obsolete) short-tailed bird, dove
- Kangxi radical #172, ⾫ (“short tailed bird”).
Usage notes
This character is not used any more. It appears only as a character component.
Derived characters
- Index:Chinese radical/隹
- 萑, 唯, 誰, 維, 翟, 瞿, 進, 脽, 䍜, 椎, 帷, 崔, 惟, 淮, 推, 陮, 錐, 蜼, 婎, 騅, 碓, 㢈, 嵟, 魋, 顀, 倠, 鵻, 奞, 猚, 𨾔, 閵, 睢, 趡, 琟, 雅
References
- KangXi: page 1364, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41937
- Dae Jaweon: page 1867, character 22
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4090, character 1
- Unihan data for U+96B9
Chinese
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隹 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 隹
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 蜼 | *lus, *rulʔ, *luls |
| 堆 | *tuːl |
| 嵟 | *tuːl |
| 碓 | *tuːls |
| 推 | *tʰuːl, *tʰjul |
| 蓷 | *tʰuːl, *tʰjul |
| 陮 | *duːlʔ |
| 魋 | *duːl |
| 嶊 | *stuːlʔ |
| 崔 | *zluːl, *sʰluːl |
| 猚 | *ŋreːl, *rulʔ |
| 椎 | *dul |
| 顀 | *dul |
| 隹 | *tjul |
| 錐 | *tjul |
| 萑 | *kljul |
| 騅 | *tjul |
| 鵻 | *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul |
| 誰 | *djul |
| 脽 | *djul |
Pictogram (象形) : a short-tailed bird (e.g. a sparrow). Compare 鳥.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄟ
- Wade-Giles: chui1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juei
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zeoi1
- Yale: jēui
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey1
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕɵy̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chui
- Tâi-lô: tsui
- Phofsit Daibuun: zuy
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 隹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (16) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 職追切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/t͡ɕiuɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/t͡ɕʷi/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/t͡ɕjuɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/cwi/ |
| Li Rong |
/t͡ɕui/ |
| Wang Li |
/t͡ɕwi/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/t͡ɕwi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
zhuī |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 隹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
zhuī |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ tsywij › |
| Old Chinese |
/*tur/ |
| English | a kind of bird |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 隹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17718 |
| Phonetic component |
隹 |
| Rime group |
微 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
錐 |
| Old Chinese |
/*tjul/ |
Definitions
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Korean
Hanja
隹 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: chuy
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