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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 112 +8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一口卜人十 (MRYOJ), four-corner 10648)

  1. break, smash
  2. broken, busted

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 832, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24284
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1248, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2439, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+788E

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



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (42)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/suʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/suoiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/suɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swəjH/
Li
Rong
/suᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/suɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/suɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
suì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
suì
Middle
Chinese
‹ swojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s-tsʰ]ˤu[t]-s/
English break

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 # 1/1
No. 17936
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*suːds/

Adjective

  1. shattered; fragmented; shredded
       suìpiàn   chip; fragment
    薯片 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
    Di1 syu4 pin3-2seoi3 saai3 laa3. [Jyutping]
    The chips are all crushed.
  2. talkative
    閒言 / 闲言   jiānyánsuì   gossip
    嘴子   suìzuǐzǐ   talkative

Noun

  1. small pieces; bits; fragments
    玻璃   bōlísuì   glass shards
       ròusuì   minced meat

Verb

  1. to shatter; to fragment; to shred
    紙機 / 纸机   suìzhǐjī   paper shredder

Compounds

  • 碎步
  • 碎步兒碎步儿
  • 碎片 (suìpiàn)
  • 碎花
  • 碎裂

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(swae) (hangeul , revised swae, McCune-Reischauer swae, Yale sway)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(toái, thỏi, tôi, toả, tui, tủi)

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