啜

啜 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口水水水 (REEE), four-corner 6704₇, composition ⿰口叕)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 196, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3832
• Dae Jaweon: page 417, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 648, character 5
• Unihan data for U+555C

Historical forms of the character 啜
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tods, *djods, *tod, *tʰjod, *djod): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 叕 (OC *tod).

Possibly related to 噆 (OC *ʔsluːb, “(of a mosquito) to bite”) (Schuessler, 2007).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “onomatopoeic? related to 嘬 (also /zyut3/ in Cantonese)?”)

啜

1. (literary or dialectal) to taste; to eat; to drink; to sip

   杯茶斟得太滿喇，要啜一啖先拎得起。
   杯茶斟得太满喇，要啜一啖先拎得起。

   bui¹ caa⁴ zam¹ dak¹ taai³ mun⁵ laa³, jiu³ zyut³ jat¹ daam⁶ sin¹ ling¹ dak¹ hei².

   This cup of tea is too full. You have to take a sip before lifting it up.

   • 眾人皆醉，何不餔其糟而啜其醨？
     众人皆醉，何不𫗦其糟而啜其醨？

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Zhòngrén jiē zuì, hé bù bū qí zāo ér chuò qí lí?

     Now that everyone else is drunk, why not taste a bit of those lees, or even take a sip of the diluted stuff?

   • 百餘年來，滿洲子弟學書畫，唱酬詩章；蒙古帳中位置古董，焚香啜茶；倭子講學，說甚心性理氣。此所以萬國太平也歟。

     From: 《古芸堂筆記/고운당필기》, 1784

     Baek yeo nyeon lae, Manju jaje hak seohwa, changsu sijang; Monggo jang jung wichi godong, bunhyang cheol cha; Waeja ganghak, yeol sim simseong rigi. Cha so'i man'guk taepyeong ya yeo.

     Since more than a hundred years, Manchu children have learned writing and painting and exchange poems to each other. The Mongols in their yurts deal with antique curios, burn incense, and sip on tea. The Japanese lecture the sciences, and are enthused by the nature of the human heart and the relationships between the cosmic principle and the vital force. This must be why the world is at peace.

2. (Cantonese) to suck

   啜奶   ―  zyut³ naai⁵   ―  to suck milk

   啜手指   ―  zyut³ sau² zi²   ―  to suck on one's fingers

3. (Cantonese) to kiss

   啜佢一啖   ―  zyut^3-1 keoi⁵ jat¹ daam⁶   ―  to give him/her a kiss

4. (Cantonese) to stick to (a surface); to be stuck on

   條褲啜住大髀，好唔舒服。
   条裤啜住大髀，好唔舒服。

   tiu⁴ fu³ zyut³ zyu⁶ daai⁶ bei², hou² m⁴ syu¹ fuk⁶.

   My trousers are sticking to my thighs; it's so uncomfortable.

   隻戒指太細喇，戴嗰時啜實手指。
   只戒指太细喇，戴嗰时啜实手指。

   zek³ gaai³ zi² taai³ sai³ laa³, daai³ go² si⁴ zyut³ sat⁶ sau² zi².

   The ring is too small. It gets stuck on my finger when I wear it.

5. (literary) thick soup
6. (literary) to sob; to weep
7. (Hakka) alternative form of 撮 (cod⁵) to cheat; to deceive; to hoax

• In Hokkien, the sense of “to drink” is usually applied to soup or thin porridge, but not to water, alcoholic beverage, or other drinks.

啜

1. (historical dictionaries only) to be talkative; to nag

啜

1. a surname

• “啜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “啜”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 35.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: せち (sechi)、てち (techi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu)、てつ (tetsu)
• Kun: すする (susuru, 啜る)

啜 • (cheol) (hangeul 철)

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