See also:
U+96D6, 雖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96D6

[U+96D5]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+96D7]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 172, +9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 口戈人土 (RIOG), four-corner 60114, composition)

Derived characters

  • 𡄪, 𥍃, 𧕘

References

  • KangXi: page 1368, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42104
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1872, character 39
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4103, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+96D6

Chinese

trad.
simp.
variant forms 𧐌
𨿽
𧈧
𨾡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɢʷrɯːlʔ, *kʰʷriːl
*kʰʷriːl
*ɡʷriːl
*qʰʷel, *sqʰʷil, *qʰʷi, *qʰʷils
*sqʷi
*skʰʷilʔ
*skʰʷilʔ, *ɢʷilʔ
*sqʰʷi
*sqʰʷi
*qʰʷi
*qʰʷil, *qʰʷils
*ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
*ɢʷi
*ɢʷi
*ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
*ɢʷi
*ɢʷil
*ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ
*ɢʷril
*sɢʷinʔ, *tjul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰʷi) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ). Originally meaning "a lizard-like reptile", the character has been phonetically borrowed to represent the sense "although".

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /suei⁵⁵/
Harbin /suei²⁴/
Tianjin /suei⁴⁵/
Jinan /suei²¹³/
Qingdao /sue²¹³/
Zhengzhou /suei²⁴/
Xi'an /suei²¹/
Xining /suɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /suei⁵³/
Lanzhou /suei³¹/
Ürümqi /suei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /sei⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕy⁵⁵/
/suei⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕi⁵⁵/
Kunming /suei⁴⁴/
Nanjing /suəi³¹/
Hefei /se²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /suei¹¹/
Pingyao /suei¹³/
Hohhot /suei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /sø⁵³/
Suzhou /se̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷei³³/
Wenzhou /sz̩³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕye⁴⁴/
Tunxi /se¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /sei³³/
Xiangtan /səi³³/
Gan Nanchang /sui⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /sui⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /sui²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /søy⁵³/
Nanning /ɬui⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /søy⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sui⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰuoi⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sy⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sui³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tui²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (16)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/sʷi/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjuɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swi/
Li
Rong
/sui/
Wang
Li
/swi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/swi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
suī
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
suī
Middle
Chinese
‹ swij ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-qʷij/
English although; even if

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 12844
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sqʰʷi/

Definitions

  1. although; even if
    麻雀五臟俱全 [MSC, trad.]
    麻雀五脏俱全 [MSC, simp.]
    máquèsuīxiǎo, wǔzàngjùquán [Pinyin]
    A sparrow may be small, but it has all its vital organs. [proverb]
    身邊疲倦 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
    身边疲倦 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]
    From: 鄧麗君 (lyricist 鄭國江), 漫步人生路
    zoi6 nei5 san1 bin1 lou6 seoi1 jyun5 mei6 pei4 gyun6 [Jyutping]
    By your side, although the road is long, I am still not tired
  2. a kind of animal similar to lizard
  3. to push
  4. (slang) Alternative form of (shuāi, “unlucky; unimpressive”).
    /    Tài suī le!   So unlucky! / So boring!

Compounds

  • 然雖然虽
  • 話雖如此话虽如此
  • 雖休勿休虽休勿休
  • 雖使虽使
  • 雖則虽则 (suīzé)
  • 雖復虽复
  • 雖恐虽恐
  • 雖故虽故
  • 雖敗猶榮虽败犹荣
  • 雖是虽是
  • 雖死猶生虽死犹生
  • 雖然虽然 (suīrán, “although”)
  • 雖然如此虽然如此
  • 雖覆能復虽覆能复
  • 雖說虽说 (suīshuō, “although”)
  • 雖馬虽马

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: すい (sui)
  • Kan-on: すい (sui)
  • Kun: いえども (iedomo, 雖も)

Korean

Hanja

(su) (hangeul , revised su, McCuneReischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tuy)

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