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趖

趖

Translingual

Han character

趖 (radical 156 走+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土人人人土 (GOOOG), four-corner 4880₁)

References

KangXi: page 1217, character 29

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37150

Dae Jaweon: page 1686, character 18

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3489, character 13

Unihan data for U+8D96

Chinese

simp. and trad.		趖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (坐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
脞	sʰal, sʰoːlʔ
侳	ʔsal, ʔsoːls
挫	*ʔsoːls
夎	*ʔsoːls
遳	*sʰloːl
銼	sʰoːls, zoːl, *zoːɡ
剉	*sʰoːls
莝	*sʰoːls
趖	*soːl
矬	*zoːl
痤	*zoːl
睉	*zoːl
坐	zoːlʔ, zoːls
座	*zoːls
髽	*ʔsroːl

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): suō (suo¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄛ
Cantonese (Jyutping): so¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sò
Min Nan (POJ): sô

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: suō
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄛ
  - Wade-Giles: suo¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suo
  - IPA ^(key): /su̯ɔ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: so¹
  - Yale: sō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: so¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sɔː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sò
  - Hakka Romanization System: soˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: so²
  - IPA: /so¹¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sô
  - Tâi-lô: sô
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sooi
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sɤ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɤ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɤ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /so²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ²³/

Middle Chinese: /suɑ/▼

Rime
Character	趖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇禾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/suɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/suɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swa/
Li Rong	/suɑ/
Wang Li	/suɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/suɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suō

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*soːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	趖
Reading #	1/1
No.	18059
Phonetic component	坐
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	莎
Old Chinese	/*soːl/

Definitions

趖

(regional, archaic) to loiter, to wander about (especially to waste time)

Derived terms

四界趖