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U+7FE0, 翠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FE0

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 124, +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸一卜人十 (SMYOJ), four-corner 17408, composition )

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 957, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28732
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1403, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3350, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7FE0

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
2nd round simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Etymology

From (OC *sʰuːds, “to dip into liquid, to plunge, to temper, to dye, etc.”), as kingfishers dive underwater to catch fish (Schuessler, 2007).

The "blue-green, cyan" > "bright" senses are because of the kingfishers' plumages.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sʰuei⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sʰuei²¹/
Qingdao /t͡sʰue⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰuei³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sʰuei⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sʰuɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰuei²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰei³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Guiyang /t͡sʰuei²¹³/
Kunming /t͡sʰuei²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡sʰuəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sʰe⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡sʰuei³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sʰuei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰe³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰe̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰz̩ʷei⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰai⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰye³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰe⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰui²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰui⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰøy³³/
Nanning /t͡sʰui³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰøy³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sʰui²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰuɔi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sʰy³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sʰui²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sui³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (16)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter tshwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰiuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰjuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰwiH/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰuiH/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰwiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cuì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ceoi3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17944
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰuds/

Definitions

  1. kingfisher, especially a cyan or blue one
  2. kingfisher feathers
  3. green jade; jadeite
  4. blue-green; cyan
  5. bright; distinct

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1][2][3]

翠󠄁
+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
翠󠄄
+󠄄?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. green

Readings

Alternative forms

Compounds

Noun

Kanji in this term
みどり
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
みどり3
green (color)
verdure
a new bud or shoot
(archaic) in the Edo Period, an apprentice to a high-ranking courtesan, from ages six or seven through thirteen or fourteen
in kabuki and 浄瑠璃 (jōruri, puppet theater), performing just the main parts of a work and omitting the 狂言 (kyōgen)
a female given name
a surname
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Proper noun

Kanji in this term
みどり
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

(みどり) (Midori

  1. a female given name

References

  1. ^ 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “”, in 字通 (Jitsū) (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN
  2. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1715 (paper), page 909 (digital)
  3. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 971 (paper), page 498 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

(chwi) (hangeul , revised chwi, McCune–Reischauer ch'wi, Yale chwi)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: thúy/thuý

  1. chữ Hán form of Thuý (female given name).