椎

椎 U+690E, 椎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-690E ← 植 [U+690D] CJK Unified Ideographs 椏 → [U+690F]

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		椎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蜼	*lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆	*tuːl
嵟	*tuːl
碓	*tuːls
推	*tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷	*tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮	*duːlʔ
魋	*duːl
嶊	*stuːlʔ
崔	*zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚	*ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎	*dul
顀	*dul
隹	*tjul
錐	*tjul
萑	*kljul
騅	*tjul
鵻	*sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰	*djul
脽	*djul

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuí, zhuī (chui², zhui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄟˊ, ㄓㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴, zeoi¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chui

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chuí
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄟˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'ui²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwei
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhuī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄟ
    • Wade–Giles: chui¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juei
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/

Note:

• chuí - literary (“hammer,”);
• zhuī - vernacular (“vertebra, shiitake, Castanopsis”).

Cantonese

• (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  • Jyutping: ceoi⁴, zeoi¹
  • Yale: chèuih, jēui
  • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey⁴, dzoey¹
  • Guangdong Romanization: cêu⁴, zêu¹
  • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɵy̯²¹/, /t͡ɕɵy̯⁵⁵/

Min Nan

• (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chui
  • Tâi-lô: tsui
  • Phofsit Daibuun: zuy
  • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui³³/
  • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁴⁴/

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• 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
3. shiitake
4. genius Castanopsis

Compounds

• 剝膚椎髓／剥肤椎髓
• 博浪飛椎／博浪飞椎
• 回椎
• 圓椎／圆椎
• 尾椎 (wěizhuī)
• 尾椎骨
• 打熱椎／打热椎
• 椎埋
• 椎子
• 椎床倒枕
• 椎心
• 椎心泣血 (chuíxīn-qìxuè)

• 椎心蝕骨／椎心蚀骨
• 椎拍輐斷／椎拍輐断
• 椎棒
• 椎牛饗士／椎牛飨士
• 椎秦
• 椎茸 (zhuīróng)
• 椎輪／椎轮
• 椎輪大輅／椎轮大辂
• 椎間板／椎间板
• 椎骨 (zhuīgǔ)
• 椎髻

• 椎魯／椎鲁
• 泣血椎心
• 胸椎 (xiōngzhuī)
• 脊椎 (jǐzhuī)
• 脊椎動物／脊椎动物 (jǐzhuī dòngwù)
• 脊椎骨 (jǐzhuīgǔ)
• 腰椎 (yāozhuī)
• 腰椎神經／腰椎神经
• 腰椎穿刺 (yāozhuī chuāncì)
• 鏈椎／链椎
• 頸椎／颈椎 (jǐngzhuī)

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Japanese

Kanji

椎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: すい (sui); ずい (zui)
• Kan-on: すい (sui); つい (tsui, Jōyō)
• Kun: つち (tsuchi, 椎); うつ (utsu, 椎つ); しい (shī, 椎)

Compounds

Compounds

• 椎 (しい)茸 (たけ) (shītake): shiitake
• 椎 (つい)間 (かん)板 (ばん) (tsuikanban): intervertebral disc
• 椎 (つい)骨 (こつ) (tsuikotsu): vertebra
• 円 (つぶら)椎 (じい) (tsuburajī): shii tree

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, rōmaji shī, historical hiragana しひ)

1. any tree of the genus Castanopsis

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

椎 (chòi, choi, chuỳ, dùi, truy, chuy)

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