Definify.com

Definition 2025

速

速

Translingual

Han character

速 (radical 162 辵+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜木中 (YDL), four-corner 35309, composition ⿺辶束)

References

  • KangXi: page 1258, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38897
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1746, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3838, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+901F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 速

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 速
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (束) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涑 *sloː, *sloːɡ, *sloɡ
鏉 *sloː, *sloːɡs, *srus
摗 *sloː
駷 *sloːʔ, *sloŋʔ
嗽 *sloːɡs, *sroːɡ, *sloːɡ
瘶 *sloːɡs
欶 *sloːɡs, *sroːɡ
漱 *sloːɡs, *srus
捒 *sreːɡ, *sroɡs, *sroɡs
悚 *sloŋʔ
竦 *sloŋʔ
娕 *sʰroːɡ
梀 *sreːɡ, *sʰloːɡ, *sloːɡ, *l̥ʰoɡ
速 *sloːɡ
餗 *sloːɡ
殐 *sloːɡ
遬 *sloːɡ
蔌 *sloːɡ
樕 *sloːɡ
藗 *sloːɡ
誎 *sʰloɡ
束 *hljoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sloːɡ) : semantic 辶 + phonetic 束 ‎(OC *hljoɡ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 速
Mandarin Beijing /su⁵¹/
Harbin /su⁵³/
Tianjin /su⁵³/
Jinan /su²¹/
Qingdao /su⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /su²⁴/
Xi'an /su²¹/
Xining /ɕy⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /su¹³/
Lanzhou /su¹³/
Ürümqi /su²¹³/
Wuhan /səu²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕyo³¹/
/ɕy³¹/
Guiyang /ɕiu²¹/
Kunming /su³¹/
Nanjing /suʔ⁵/
Hefei /suəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /suəʔ²/
Pingyao /ɕyʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /suəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /soʔ⁵/
Suzhou /soʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /soʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /sɤu²¹³/
Hui Shexian /suʔ²¹/
Tunxi /səu⁵/
Xiang Changsha /səu²⁴/
Xiangtan /səɯ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /suʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /suk̚¹/
Taoyuan /suk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰok̚⁵/
Nanning /t͡sʰuk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰok̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sɔk̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /souʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /su²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sok̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sok̚⁵/
Rime
Character 速 速
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 屋 (3) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 桑谷切 資昔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /suk̚/ /t͡siᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /suk̚/ /t͡siɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /suk̚/ /t͡siæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /səwk̚/ /t͡siajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /suk̚/ /t͡siɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /suk̚/ /t͡sĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /suk̚/ /t͡si̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 su ji
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 速 速
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sù sù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ suwk › ‹ suwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ˤok/ /*[s]ˤok/
English invite rapid

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 速
Reading # 1/1
No. 11880
Phonetic
component		 束
Rime
group		 屋
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 速
Old
Chinese		 /*sloːɡ/

Definitions

速

  1. speedy; quick; fast
    速度  ―  sùdù  ―  speed
  2. quickly; speedily
    速去速回  ―  sùqùsùhuí  ―  to go and return quickly
  3. speed
    時速 / 时速  ―  shísù  ―  speed per hour

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

速

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. fast, speedy

Readings

Compounds

See also

Korean

Hanja

速 • ‎(sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune-Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

速 (tốc, rốc, nhanh)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Similar Results