隹
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Translingual
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Han character
隹 (radical 172 隹+0, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人土 (OG) or X人土 (XOG), four-corner 20214/20215, composition ⿰亻⿻一主)
- Kangxi radical #172, ⾫.
Usage notes
This character is used mostly as a character component. Note that, in Japanese and Korean scripts, the dot stroke (㇔) atop the radical (隹) is written from top-right to bottom-left (instead of top-left to bottom-right) as found in the Kangxi dictionary.
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 1364, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41937
- Dae Jaweon: page 1867, character 22
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4090, character 1
- Unihan data for U+96B9
Chinese
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Glyph origin
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References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 蜼 | *lus, *rulʔ, *luls |
| 堆 | *tuːl |
| 嵟 | *tuːl |
| 碓 | *tuːls |
| 推 | *tʰuːl, *tʰjul |
| 蓷 | *tʰuːl, *tʰjul |
| 陮 | *duːlʔ |
| 魋 | *duːl |
| 嶊 | *stuːlʔ |
| 崔 | *zluːl, *sʰluːl |
| 猚 | *ŋreːl, *rulʔ |
| 椎 | *dul |
| 顀 | *dul |
| 隹 | *tjul |
| 錐 | *tjul |
| 萑 | *kljul |
| 騅 | *tjul |
| 鵻 | *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul |
| 誰 | *djul |
| 脽 | *djul |
Pictogram (象形) : a short‐tailed bird (e.g. a sparrow). Compare 鳥.
Pronunciation
Definitions
隹
Japanese
Kanji
- old bird
Readings
Korean
Hanja
隹 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: chuy
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