燧

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

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suì (sui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sūi

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

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• Middle Chinese: zwijH

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

• 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 (fēngsuì)
• 燧人
• 燧人氏
• 燧木
• 燧火鏡 / 燧火镜
• 燧發槍 / 燧发枪 (suìfāqiāng)
• 燧石 (suìshí)
• 燧象
• 邊燧 / 边燧
• 鑽燧 / 钻燧
• 陰燧 / 阴燧
• 陽燧 / 阳燧

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)

References

• “^▲燧”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

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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