瑞

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 瑞
Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

瑞 (radical 96 玉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一土山一月 (MGUMB), four-corner 1212₇, composition ⿰𤣩耑)

1. felicitous omen
2. auspicious

References

• KangXi: page 738, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21131
• Dae Jaweon: page 1148, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1126, character 10
• Unihan data for U+745E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		瑞

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ruì (rui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sui
• Min Nan (POJ): sūi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ruì
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: jui⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ruey
    • IPA ^(key): /ʐu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶
    • Yale: seuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sui
    • Hakka Romanization System: sui
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sui⁴
    • IPA: /su̯i⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sūi
    • Tâi-lô: suī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sui
    • IPA (Taipei): /sui³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sui²²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 瑞
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʐuei⁵¹/
	Harbin	/luei²¹³/ /ʐuei²¹³/
	Tianjin	/ʐuei⁵³/
	Jinan	/luei²¹/
	Qingdao	/ʂue⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʐuei³¹²/
	Xi'an	/fei⁴⁴/
	Xining	/fɨ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/ʐuei¹³/
	Lanzhou	/fei¹³/
	Ürümqi	/vei²¹³/
	Wuhan	/suei³⁵/
	Chengdu	/suei¹³/ /zuei¹³/
	Guiyang	/suei²¹³/
	Kunming	/ʂuei²¹²/
	Nanjing	/ʐuəi⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ʂue⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/zuei⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/suei³⁵/
	Hohhot	/ʐuei⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/zø²³/
	Suzhou	/ze³¹/
	Hangzhou	/zz̩ʷei¹³/
	Wenzhou	/zz̩²²/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕye²²/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕyei⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ɕyəi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/sui²¹/ ～金
Hakka	Meixian	/sui⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/sui⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/søy²²/
	Nanning	/sui²²/
	Hong Kong	/søy²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/sui²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/suɔi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/sy⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/sui³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/sui³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑiuᴇ^H/▼

Rime
Character	瑞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	支 (12)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	是僞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiuᴇH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑʷiɛH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjuɛH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑwiə̆H/
Li Rong	/ʑiueH/
Wang Li	/ʑǐweH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑwie̯H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shuì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[d]or-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djols/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瑞
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ruì
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyweH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]or-s/
English	jade tablet
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	瑞
Reading #	1/1
No.	2499
Phonetic component	耑
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	睡
Old Chinese	/*djols/

Definitions

瑞

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Compounds

• 瑞典 (Ruìdiǎn)
• 瑞士 (Ruìshì)
• 瑞气

• 瑞符
• 瑞签
• 瑞芝

• 瑞雪 (ruìxuě)
• 祥瑞
• 符瑞

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Japanese

Kanji

瑞

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Goon: ずい (zui)
• Kan’on: すい (sui)
• Kun: しるし (shirushi), みず (mizu) > みづ (midu)

Compounds

• 瑞気
• 瑞祥
• 瑞兆
• 瑞鶴
• 瑞夢
• 瑞垣
• 瑞穂国

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Korean

Hanja

瑞 • ‎(seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瑞 (thuỵ, thụy)

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