夊

See also 夂, and 攵

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – footprint (pointing down), variant of 夂.Compare 止, which has similar form in oracle script, but has leg pointing up, and 𡕒 (as in right side of 舛, roughly ヰ), which also has leg pointing down, but toe pointing left, hence different evolutions.

		夊
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

夊 (radical 35 夊+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 竹水 (HE), XX竹水 (XXHE))

1. KangXi radical 35
2. go slowly

References

• KangXi: page 245, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5708
• Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 867, character 16
• Unihan data for U+590A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

夊 (Yale seui1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

夊 (POJ soi, sui, Guangdong soi¹, sui¹)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary

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Japanese

Kanji

夊 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: すい (sui)
• Kun: すいにょう (suinyō)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

夊 (pinyin suī (sui1), Wade-Giles sui¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

夊 (tuy)