垂

Stroke order

Stroke order (Japan)

Stroke order

垂 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 竹十廿一 (HJTM), four-corner 2010₄, composition ⿻⿱千工艹 or ⿻⿱千工卄)

• 睡, 錘/锤, 郵, 倕, 唾, 埵, 娷, 崜, 捶, 棰, 涶, 硾, 箠, 綞/缍, 腄, 菙, 諈, 陲, 甀, 㩾, 㻔, 䅜, 䍋, 䮔, 䳠, 厜, 𠝶, 𡐱, 𡑈, 𡙇, 𢏴, 𢔝, 𢛉, 𢛲, 𢻩, 𣂩, 𣇦, 𤷣, 𥡭, 𦈼, 𦖋, 𦥻, 𧌯, 𨉡, 𨔠, 𨲉, 𩃒, 𩗰, 𩜀, 𩣷, 𩩞, 𩭦, 𩸫, 𫵌

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 227, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5012
• Dae Jaweon: page 463, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 432, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5782

Historical forms of the character 垂
Spring and Autumn	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Originally 𡍮. Pictogram (象形) : 𠂹 + 土, flowers hanging from a plant.

May be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(d/n)waj (“to hang from; to cling to; creeper”) (STEDT), whence Burmese တွဲ (twai:, “to link; drooping, hanging”). Compare also the following Sinitic words:

• 睡 (OC *djols, “to sleep”)
• 朵 (OC *toːlʔ, “to hang from a tree; classifier for blossoms”)
• 鬌 (OC *ʔl'oːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *l'ol, “portion of hair left on a child after a haircut”)
• 橢 (OC *l̥ʰoːlʔ, “oblong, oval”)
• 惰 (OC *l'oːlʔ, *l'oːls, “lazy, negligent”)
• 緌 (OC *njul, “tassel”)
• 蕊 (OC *ŋljolʔ, *ŋljulʔ, “reproductive organ of flower”)
• 繠 (OC *ŋljolʔ, *ŋljulʔ, “to hang down”)

垂

1. to suspend; to hang (down); bend (down)
2. to drip, to shed (tears)
3. to hand down, to bequeath, to transmit (something abstract, such as a message or tradition) to one’s successors or aftercomers
4. nearly; almost
5. to approach
6. (Teochew) listless
7. (Teochew) wilted
8. (obsolete) difficult; hard
9. (obsolete) hardly; harshly

• “Query for 垂”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
• “Entry #8621”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. suspend, dangle, hang

• Go-on: ずい (zui)
• Kan-on: すい (sui, Jōyō)
• Kun: たれる (tareru, 垂れる, Jōyō)、たらす (tarasu, 垂らす, Jōyō)、たれ (tare, 垂れ)、なんなんとす (nannantosu, 垂す)
• Nanori: たる (taru)、だれ (dare)

垂(しで) • (shide) 

1. zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects
2. hornbeam plant

• 四(し)手(で) (shide)

垂 (eum 수 (su))

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垂: Hán Nôm readings: thùy/thuỳ

1. to hang, to fall, to follow
2. adjacent to