啜

啜 U+555C, 啜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-555C ← 啛 [U+555B] CJK Unified Ideographs 啝 → [U+555D]

Translingual

Han character

啜 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口水水水 (REEE), four-corner 6704₇, composition ⿰口叕)

References

• KangXi: page 196, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3832
• Dae Jaweon: page 417, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 648, character 5
• Unihan data for U+555C

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (叕) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蝃	*tɯːds, *tjod
欼	*sʰrɯʔ
綴	*tods, *tod
醊	*tods, *tod
畷	*tods, *tod
啜	*tods, *djods, *tod, *tʰjod, *djodd
餟	*tods, *tod
腏	*tods, *toːd, *tod
錣	*tods, *rtoːd
輟	*tods, *tod
娺	*tul, *rtoːd
窡	*rtoːd, *rtoːd
鵽	*rtoːd, *rtoːd, *toːd
掇	*toːd, *tod
剟	*toːd, *tod
裰	*toːd
敠	*toːd, *sʰlod
惙	*tod
罬	*tod, *ktod
叕	*tod
歠	*tʰjod
逫	*tud

Pronunciation 1

simp. and trad.		啜
alt. forms		嚽 歠 𠼣 𩟫

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuò (chuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄛˋ

• Min Dong (BUC): chiók

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'uo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuoh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chiók
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuɔʔ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʈˠiuᴇi^H/, /d͡ʑiuᴇi^H/, /t͡ɕʰiuᴇt̚/, /t͡ɕʰiuᴇt̚/▼

Rime
Character	啜	啜	啜	啜
Reading #	1/5	2/5	3/5	5/5
Initial (聲)	知 (9)	常 (25)	昌 (24)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	祭 (38)	祭 (36)	薛 (82)	薛 (82)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	Chongniu III	III	III	III
Fanqie	陟衛切	甞芮切	昌悅切	姝雪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiuᴇiH/	/d͡ʑiuᴇiH/	/t͡ɕʰiuᴇt̚/	/t͡ɕʰiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʷᵚieiH/	/d͡ʑʷiɛiH/	/t͡ɕʰʷiɛt̚/	/t͡ɕʰʷiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiuæiH/	/d͡ʑiuæiH/	/t͡ɕʰjuæt̚/	/t͡ɕʰjuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈjwiajH/	/d͡ʑwiajH/	/cʰwiat̚/	/cʰwiat̚/
Li Rong	/ȶjuɛiH/	/ʑiuɛiH/	/t͡ɕʰiuɛt̚/	/t͡ɕʰiuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ȶĭwɛiH/	/ʑĭwɛiH/	/t͡ɕʰĭuɛt̚/	/t͡ɕʰĭuɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯wɛiH/	/ʑi̯wɛiH/	/t͡ɕʰi̯wɛt̚/	/t͡ɕʰi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuì	shuì	chuo	chuo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tʰot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tods/, /*djods/, /*tʰjod/, /*djodd/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	啜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chuò
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhwet ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰot/
English	taste, eat, drink (v.)
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	啜	啜	啜	啜
Reading #	1/5	2/5	4/5	5/5
No.	17781	17786	17814	17816
Phonetic component	叕	叕	叕	叕
Rime group	祭	祭	月	月
Rime subdivision	3	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime			歠
Old Chinese	/*tods/	/*djods/	/*tʰjod/	/*djodd/
Notes				殊由姝校正

Definitions

啜

1. to taste; to eat; to drink
2. to sob; to weep

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 喝 (“to drink”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		飲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		喝
Mandarin	Beijing	喝
	Taiwan	喝
	Jinan	喝
	Xi'an	喝
	Wuhan	喝、呵、汩
	Chengdu	吃、呵
	Yangzhou	喝、吃
	Hefei	喝
Cantonese	Guangzhou	飲、呷
	Hong Kong	飲、呷
	Taishan	飲
	Yangjiang	呷、吃
Gan	Nanchang	喫
Hakka	Meixian	食、啜
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	食、啉、飲
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	食、啉、飲
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	食、啉、飲
	Dongshi (Dabu)	食、啉、飲
	Zhuolan (Raoping)	食、啉、飲
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	啉、食
Jin	Taiyuan	喝
Min Bei	Jian'ou	啜、食
Min Dong	Fuzhou	啜
Min Nan	Xiamen	啉、食、哈
	Quanzhou	啉、食、哈
	Zhangzhou	啉、食
	Taipei	啉
	Kaohsiung	啉
	Tainan	啉、呵、食、灌
	Taichung	啉
	Hsinchu	啉、哈
	Lukang	啉
	Sanxia	啉
	Yilan	啉、呵、食
	Kinmen	啉
	Magong	食、啉
	Penang	啉
	Singapore	啉
	Philippines (Manila)	啉
	Chaozhou	食、啉
Wu	Shanghai	吃、喝
	Suzhou	吃、呷、呼
	Wenzhou	呷、吃
Xiang	Changsha	吃
	Shuangfeng	吃、呵

Compounds

• 啜哄
• 啜持
• 啜汁
• 啜泣

• 啜茗 (chuòmíng)
• 啜茶
• 啜菽飲水／啜菽饮水
• 啜賺／啜赚

• 啜飲／啜饮 (chuòyǐn)
• 飲水啜菽／饮水啜菽
• 餔啜／𫗦啜
• 餔糟啜醨／𫗦糟啜醨

Pronunciation 2

simp. and trad.		啜
alt. forms		諁

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chuo²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʈˠiuᴇt̚/▼

Rime
Character	啜
Reading #	4/5
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	薛 (84)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	陟劣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʷᵚiet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈwiat̚/
Li Rong	/ȶjuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ȶĭuɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*tod/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	啜
Reading #	3/5
No.	17808
Phonetic component	叕
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	輟
Old Chinese	/*tod/

Definitions

啜

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Pronunciation 3

simp. and trad.		啜

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuài (chuai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄞˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chuài
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'uai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuay
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹/

Definitions

啜

1. A surname​.

References

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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Japanese

Kanji

啜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: せち (sechi); てち (techi)
• Kan’on: せつ (setsu); てつ (tetsu)
• Kun: すする (susuru, 啜る)

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Korean

Hanja

啜 • (cheol) (hangeul 철)

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