燧

燧

燧 U+71E7, 燧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71E7 ← 燦 [U+71E6] CJK Unified Ideographs 燨 → [U+71E8]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		燧

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, OC *ljuds) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 遂 (OC *ljuds).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suì (sui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: suì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade–Giles: sui⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suey
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suèi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sweɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶
    • Yale: seuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ziuɪ^H/▼

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷiH/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwiH/
Li Rong	/zuiH/
Wang Li	/zwiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/zwiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljuds/

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

烽燧 燧人氏 燧木 燧火鏡／燧火镜

燧石 (suìshí) 燧象 邊燧／边燧

鑽燧／钻燧 陰燧／阴燧 陽燧／阳燧

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Japanese

Kanji

燧

(uncommon “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)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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