燧

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燧 U+71E7, 燧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71E7
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 燨 →

Translingual

Han character

燧 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火卜廿人 (FYTO), four-corner 98833, composition ⿰火遂)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 684, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19469
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1097, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2236, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+71E7

Chinese

trad. 燧
simp. # 燧
alternative forms 鿪
㸂

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ljuds) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 遂 (OC *ljuds).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 燧
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
Baxter zwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ziuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/zʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/zjuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/zwiH/
Li
Rong 		/zuiH/
Wang
Li 		/zwiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/zwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		suì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		seoi6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 燧
Reading # 1/1
No. 12150
Phonetic
component 		遂
Rime
group 		隊
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		遂
Old
Chinese 		/*ljuds/

Definitions

燧

  1. flintstone
  2. beacon fire; signal fire
  3. torch

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

燧

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ずい (zui)
  • Kan-on: すい (sui)
  • Kun: ひうち (hiuchi, 燧)、のろし (noroshi, 燧)

Korean

Hanja

燧 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

燧: Hán Nôm readings: toại

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