燧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 火 + phonetic 遂

Han character

燧 (radical 86 火+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火卜廿人 (FYTO), four-corner 9883₃)

1. flintstone
2. beacon, signal fire
3. torch

References

• KangXi: page 684, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19469
• Dae Jaweon: page 1097, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2236, character 11
• Unihan data for U+71E7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

燧 (Jyutping seoi6, Yale seui6)

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Japanese

Kanji

燧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: すい (sui)
• Kun: ひうち (hiuchi), のろし (noroshi)

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Korean

Hanja

燧 (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

燧 (Pinyin suì (sui4), Wade-Giles sui⁴)

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