椎

Translingual

Han character

椎 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木人土 (DOG), four-corner 4091₄, composition ⿰木隹)

References

• KangXi: page 536, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15024
• Dae Jaweon: page 924, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1233, character 10
• Unihan data for U+690E

---

Chinese

simp. and trad.		椎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuí, zhuī (chui², zhui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄟˊ, ㄓㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴, zeoi¹

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chuí
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄟˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ui²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwei
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhuī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: chui¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juei
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceoi⁴, zeoi¹
    • Yale: chèuih, jēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoei⁴, dzoei¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɵy̯²¹/, /t͡ɕɵy̯⁵⁵/

---

• Middle Chinese: /ɖˠiuɪ/▼

Rime
Character	椎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	直追切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiuɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖʷᵚi/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiuɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjwi/
Li Rong	/ȡjui/
Wang Li	/ȡwi/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱwi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chuí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*k.druj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*dul/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	椎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chuí
Middle Chinese	‹ drwij ›
Old Chinese	/*k.druj/
English	hammer
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	椎
Reading #	1/1
No.	17716
Phonetic component	隹
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鎚
Old Chinese	/*dul/

Definitions

椎

1. hammer, mallet
2. vertebra

Compounds

• 椎心泣血
• 椎骨
• 椎间盘

---

Japanese

Kanji

椎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings

• Goon: すい (sui), ずい (zui)
• Kan’on: すい (sui), つい (tsui)
• Kun: つち (tsuchi), うつ (utsu), しい (shī)

Compounds

Compounds

椎茸 (しいたけ) ‎(shītake): shiitake 椎間板 (ついかんばん) ‎(tsuikanban): intervertebral disc 椎骨 (ついこつ) ‎(tsuikotsu): vertebra 円椎 (つぶらじい) ‎(tsuburajī): shii tree

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji in this term
椎
しい Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) し​い [shíꜜì] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɕiː]

Noun

椎 ‎(hiragana しい, katakana シイ, romaji shī, historical hiragana しひ)

1. any tree of the genus Castanopsis

---

Korean

Hanja

椎 • ‎(chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

---

Vietnamese

Han character

椎 (chòi, choi, chuỳ, dùi, truy, chuy)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.