隧

隧

隧 U+96A7, 隧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96A7 ← 隦 [U+96A6] CJK Unified Ideographs 隨 → [U+96A8]

Translingual

Han character

隧 (radical 170, 阜+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 弓中卜廿人 (NLYTO), four-corner 7823₃, composition ⿰阝遂)

References

• KangXi: page 1361, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41870
• Dae Jaweon: page 1864, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4159, character 1
• Unihan data for U+96A7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		隧

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suì (sui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): sūi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: suì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade–Giles: sui⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suey
    • IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶
    • Yale: seuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sūi
    • Tâi-lô: suī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sui
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sui²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sui²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sui³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sui³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ziuɪ^H/▼

Rime
Character	隧
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▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə-lu[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljuds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隧
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	suì
Middle Chinese	‹ zwijH ›
Old Chinese	/*sə-lu[t]-s/
English	tunnel, path
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	隧
Reading #	1/1
No.	12149
Phonetic component	遂
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	遂
Old Chinese	/*ljuds/

Definitions

隧

1. tunnel; underground passage

Compounds

埏隧 時光隧道／时光隧道 東隧／东隧 (Dōngsuì) 河底隧道

獅隧／狮隧 (Shīsuì) 紅隧／红隧 (Hóngsuì) 腕隧道症 西隧 (Xīsuì)

隧洞 隧蜂 隧道 (suìdào) 香隧 (Xiāngsuì)

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Japanese

Kanji

隧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): すい (sui); つい (tsui); たい (tai)
• Kun: みち (michi, 隧); めぐる (meguru); のろしだい (noroshidai)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

隧 (toại)

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