隹

See also: 住 and 佳
隹 U+96B9, 隹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96B9
← 隸
[U+96B8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 隺 →
[U+96BA]

Translingual
Stroke order
Short‐tailed bird

Han character

隹 (radical 172, 隹+0, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人土 (OG) or X人土 (XOG), four-corner 20214/20215, composition ⿰亻⿱亠龶(GHT) or ⿰亻⿻主一(GHT) or ⿰亻⿳丿一龶(JK))

  1. Kangxi radical #172, ⾫.

Usage notes

This character is used mostly as a character component. Note that, in Japanese and Korean scripts, the dot stroke (㇔) atop the radical (隹) is written from top-right to bottom-left (instead of top-left to bottom-right) as found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 1364, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41937
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1867, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4090, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+96B9

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 隹

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 隹
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script

s02596

Transcribed ancient scripts

L31109

L31110

L31111

L31112

L31113

L31114

L04324

L04325

L04326

L04327

L04328

L04329

L04330

L04331

L04332

L04333

L04334

L04335

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜼 *lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆 *tuːl
嵟 *tuːl
碓 *tuːls
推 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮 *duːlʔ
魋 *duːl
嶊 *stuːlʔ
崔 *zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚 *ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎 *dul
顀 *dul
隹 *tjul
錐 *tjul
萑 *kljul
騅 *tjul
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰 *djul
脽 *djul

Pictogram (象形) : a short‐tailed bird (e.g. a sparrow). Compare 鳥.

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 隹
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職追切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʷi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjuɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cwi/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕui/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕwi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕwi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhuī
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 隹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhuī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsywij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tur/
English a kind of bird

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 隹
Reading # 1/1
No. 17718
Phonetic
component		 隹
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 錐
Old
Chinese		 /*tjul/

Definitions

隹

  1. † short-tailed bird
  2. † Original form of 唯 (wéi, “to be”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji
隹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. old bird

Readings
  • On (unclassified): すい (sui); さい (sai)
  • Kun: とり (tori, 隹); ふるとり (furutori, 隹)

Korean

Hanja

隹 (eum 추 (chu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

隹: Hán Nôm readings: chuy

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