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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 水弓中月 (ENLB), four-corner 34132, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 660, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18665
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1070, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1774, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7021

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (12)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siuᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun
/sʷiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjuɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swiə̆H/
Li
Rong
/siueH/
Wang
Li
/sǐweH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/swie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
suì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
suǐ
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjweH ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-loj-s/
English slippery

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5434 5435
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*slolʔ/ /*slols/

Definitions

  1. slippery, smooth

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

(Cantonese)

  1. to slide down, to slip
  2. to collapse (sideways)

Compounds

  • 滫瀡