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)

1. sip, suck up
2. sob, weep

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

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

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuò, zhuó (chuo⁴, zhuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄛˋ, ㄓㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyut³, zyut³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): cho̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'uo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuoh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chuo²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyut³, zyut³
    • Yale: chyut, jyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyt⁸, dzyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: qud³, jud³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyːt̚³/, /t͡ɕyːt̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: cho̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: zod
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zod⁶
    • IPA: /t͡sot̚⁵/

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

Rime
Character	啜	啜	啜	啜	啜
Reading #	1/5	2/5	3/5	4/5	5/5
Initial (聲)	知 (9)	常 (25)	昌 (24)	知 (9)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	祭 (38)	祭 (36)	薛 (82)	薛 (84)	薛 (82)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	Chongniu III	III	III	Chongniu III	III
Fanqie	陟衛切	甞芮切	昌悅切	陟劣切	姝雪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiuᴇiH/	/d͡ʑiuᴇiH/	/t͡ɕʰiuᴇt̚/	/ʈˠiuᴇt̚/	/t͡ɕʰiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʷᵚieiH/	/d͡ʑʷiɛiH/	/t͡ɕʰʷiɛt̚/	/ʈʷᵚiet̚/	/t͡ɕʰʷiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiuæiH/	/d͡ʑiuæiH/	/t͡ɕʰjuæt̚/	/ȶiuæt̚/	/t͡ɕʰjuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈjwiajH/	/d͡ʑwiajH/	/cʰwiat̚/	/ʈwiat̚/	/cʰwiat̚/
Li Rong	/ȶjuɛiH/	/ʑiuɛiH/	/t͡ɕʰiuɛt̚/	/ȶjuɛt̚/	/t͡ɕʰiuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ȶĭwɛiH/	/ʑĭwɛiH/	/t͡ɕʰĭuɛt̚/	/ȶĭuɛt̚/	/t͡ɕʰĭuɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯wɛiH/	/ʑi̯wɛiH/	/t͡ɕʰi̯wɛt̚/	/ȶi̯wɛt̚/	/t͡ɕʰi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuì	shuì	chuo	zhuo	chuo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tʰot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tods/, /*djods/, /*tod/, /*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	啜
Reading #	1/5	2/5	3/5	4/5	5/5
No.	17781	17786	17808	17814	17816
Phonetic component	叕	叕	叕	叕	叕
Rime group	祭	祭	月	月	月
Rime subdivision	3	3	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime			輟	歠
Old Chinese	/*tods/	/*djods/	/*tod/	/*tʰjod/	/*djodd/
Notes					殊由姝校正

Definitions

啜

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

References

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuài (chuai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄞˋ

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

Definitions

啜

1. A surname​.

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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)

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Korean

Hanja

啜 • (cheol) (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏl)

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