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隧

隧

Translingual

Han character

隧 (radical 170 阜+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 弓中卜廿人 (NLYTO), four-corner 7823₃)

tunnel, underground passageway, path to a tomb

References

KangXi: page 1361, character 2

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41870

Dae Jaweon: page 1864, character 25

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4159, character 1

Unihan data for U+96A7

Chinese

simp. and trad.		隧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (遂) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
隊	*l'uːds
邃	*sluds
譢	*sluds
遂	*ljuds
隧	*ljuds
燧	*ljuds
襚	*ljuds
旞	*ljuds
璲	*ljuds
檖	*ljuds
澻	*ljuds
鐆	*ljuds
鐩	*ljuds
穟	*ljuds
墜	*l'uds

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): suì (sui⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: suì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ
  - Wade-Giles: sui⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suey
  - IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: seoi⁶
  - Yale: seuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/

Middle Chinese: /ziuɪ^H/▼

Rime
Character	隧
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	徐醉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwi^H/
Li Rong	/zui^H/
Wang Li	/zwi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/zwi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suì

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*sə-lu[t]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ljuds/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隧
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	suì
Middle Chinese	‹ zwij^H ›
Old Chinese	/*sə-lu[t]-s/
English	tunnel, path
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	隧
Reading #	1/1
No.	12149
Phonetic component	遂
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	遂
Old Chinese	/*ljuds/

Definitions

隧

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Japanese

Kanji

隧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: すい (sui), つい (tsui), たい (tai)

Kun: みち (michi), めぐる (meguru), のろしだい (noroshidai)

Korean

Hanja

隧 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

隧 (toại)

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