泅

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泅 U+6CC5, 泅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CC5
← 泄
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 泆 →

Translingual

Han character

泅 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水田人 (EWO), four-corner 36100, composition ⿰氵囚)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 615, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17270
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1009, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1587, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6CC5

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (囚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鮂 *ʔslu, *lju
囚 *lju
泅 *lju
苬 *lju

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lju) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 囚 (OC *lju).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 泅
alternative forms 汓
仇 Hokkien

Possibly a dialectal variant of 游 (OC *lu, “to swim”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • siû - literary;
  • chhiû - vernacular.
Rime
Character 泅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 似尤切
Baxter zjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/zɨu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ziu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ziəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/zuw/
Li
Rong 		/ziu/
Wang
Li 		/zĭəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/zi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cau4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 泅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qiú
Middle
Chinese 		‹ zjuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*.ru/
English swim

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 泅
Reading # 1/1
No. 10555
Phonetic
component 		囚
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*lju/

Definitions

泅

  1. to swim; to float; to wade

Compounds

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
 泅

Pronunciation

Definitions

泅

  1. Alternative form of 攸 (yōu, “(of water) flowing”)

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

泅

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): しゅう (shū)
  • Kun: およぐ (oyogu)

Korean

Hanja

泅 (eum 쉬 (swi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

泅: Hán Nôm readings: tù

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