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瑞

瑞

Translingual

Han character

瑞 (radical 96 玉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一土山一月 (MGUMB), four-corner 12127, composition ⿰𤣩耑)

  1. felicitous omen
  2. auspicious

References

  • KangXi: page 738, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21131
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1148, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1126, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+745E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 瑞

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 瑞
Mandarin Beijing /ʐuei⁵¹/
Harbin /luei²¹³/
/ʐuei²¹³/
Tianjin /ʐuei⁵³/
Jinan /luei²¹/
Qingdao /ʂue⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʐuei³¹²/
Xi'an /fei⁴⁴/
Xining /fɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʐuei¹³/
Lanzhou /fei¹³/
Ürümqi /vei²¹³/
Wuhan /suei³⁵/
Chengdu /suei¹³/
/zuei¹³/
Guiyang /suei²¹³/
Kunming /ʂuei²¹²/
Nanjing /ʐuəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʂue⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /zuei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /suei³⁵/
Hohhot /ʐuei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zø²³/
Suzhou /ze³¹/
Hangzhou /zz̩ʷei¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩²²/
Hui Shexian /ɕye²²/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ɕyei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɕyəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /sui²¹/ ～金
Hakka Meixian /sui⁵³/
Taoyuan /sui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /søy²²/
Nanning /sui²²/
Hong Kong /søy²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sui²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /suɔi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sy⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sui³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sui³⁵/
Rime
Character 瑞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 支 (12)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 是僞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiuᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑʷiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjuɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑwiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiueH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑǐweH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑwie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shuì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瑞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 ruì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyweH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]or-s/
English jade tablet

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 瑞
Reading # 1/1
No. 2499
Phonetic
component		 耑
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 睡
Old
Chinese		 /*djols/

Definitions

瑞

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Compounds

  • 瑞符
  • 瑞签
  • 瑞芝
  • 瑞雪 (ruìxuě)
  • 祥瑞
  • 符瑞

Japanese

Kanji

瑞

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 瑞気
  • 瑞祥
  • 瑞兆
  • 瑞鶴
  • 瑞夢
  • 瑞垣
  • 瑞穂国

Korean

Hanja

瑞 • ‎(seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瑞 (thuỵ, thụy)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 瑞
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (耑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
揣 *toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
褍 *toːlʔ, *toːn
惴 *tjols
圌 *djol, *djon
篅 *djol, *djon
瑞 *djols
端 *toːn
剬 *toːn, *tjonʔ
偳 *toːn, *tʰoːn
鍴 *toːn
耑 *toːn
踹 *toːns, *djonʔ
湍 *tʰoːn, *tjon
煓 *tʰoːn
貒 *tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
諯 *stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
顓 *tjon
喘 *tʰjonʔ
遄 *djon
輲 *djon
椯 *djon
歂 *djon, *djonʔ
腨 *djonʔ

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