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粹
粹
See also: 粋
Translingual
Han character
粹 (radical 119 米+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火木卜人十 (FDYOJ), four-corner 90948)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 909, character 39
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26987
- Dae Jaweon: page 1335, character 31
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3152, character 22
- Unihan data for U+7CB9
Chinese
| simp. and trad. | 粹 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (卒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 晬 | *ʔsuːds | 
| 祽 | *ʔsuːds | 
| 綷 | *ʔsuːds | 
| 淬 | *sʰuːds | 
| 啐 | *sʰuːds, *suːds, *sʰroːds, *ʔsud | 
| 倅 | *sʰuːds, *ʔsuːd | 
| 焠 | *sʰuːds | 
| 碎 | *suːds | 
| 誶 | *suːds, *suds, *zud | 
| 濢 | *ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds | 
| 噿 | *ʔslulʔ | 
| 臎 | *ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds | 
| 醉 | *ʔsuds | 
| 翠 | *sʰuds | 
| 悴 | *zuds | 
| 萃 | *zuds | 
| 瘁 | *zuds | 
| 顇 | *zuds | 
| 粹 | *suds | 
| 睟 | *suds | 
| 賥 | *suds | 
| 卒 | *ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud | 
| 稡 | *ʔsuːd | 
| 猝 | *sʰuːd | 
| 椊 | *zuːd | 
| 捽 | *zuːd, *zud | 
| 崪 | *zuːd | 
| 窣 | *suːd | 
| 崒 | *zud | 
| 踤 | *zud | 
| 錊 | *ʔsuːɡ | 
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄟˋ
- Wade-Giles: ts'ui4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuey
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
 
 
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
-  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+- Jyutping: seoi3, seoi6
- Yale: seui, seuih
- Cantonese Pinyin: soey3, soey6
- IPA (key): /sɵy̯³³/, /sɵy̯²²/
 
 
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
-  Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 粹 | 
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /t͡sʰuei⁵¹/ | 
| Harbin | /t͡sʰuei⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /t͡sʰuei⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /t͡sʰuei²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /t͡sʰue⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /t͡sʰuei³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /t͡sʰuei⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /t͡sʰuɨ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /t͡sʰuei¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /t͡sʰuei¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /t͡sʰuei²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡sʰei³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡sʰuei¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /suei²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /t͡sʰuei²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /t͡sʰuəi⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡sʰe⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡sʰuei⁴⁵/ | 
| Pingyao | ||
| Hohhot | /t͡sʰuei⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /t͡sʰø³⁵/ | 
| Suzhou | /ze̞³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /sz̩ʷei⁴⁴⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /zai²²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡ɕʰye³²⁴/ | 
| Tunxi | /t͡sʰe⁴²/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡sʰei⁵⁵/ | 
| Xiangtan | /t͡sʰəi⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡sʰui²¹³/ | 
| Hakka | Meixian | /t͡sʰui⁵³/ | 
| Taoyuan | /sui⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /søy²²/ | 
| Nanning | /t͡sʰui³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /søy²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /sui²¹/ /t͡sʰui²¹/ | 
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /t͡suɔi²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡sʰo³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /t͡sui³⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /sui³⁵/ | 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 粹 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) | 
| Final (韻) | 脂 (16) | 
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | 
| Openness (開合) | Closed | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 雖遂切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siuɪH/ | 
| Pan Wuyun | /sʷiH/ | 
| Shao Rongfen | /sjuɪH/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /swiH/ | 
| Li Rong | /suiH/ | 
| Wang Li | /swiH/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren | /swiH/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | suì | 
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 粹 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 17951 | 
| Phonetic component | 卒 | 
| Rime group | 隊 | 
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 
| Corresponding MC rime | 邃 | 
| Old Chinese | /*suds/ | 
Adjective
粹
Derived terms
Japanese
Kanji
粹
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
粹 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)
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