荾

荾 U+837E, 荾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-837E ← 荽 [U+837D] CJK Unified Ideographs 荿 → [U+837F]

Translingual

Han character

荾 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, Cangjie input 廿戈金水 (TICE), four-corner 4440₇, composition ⿱艹夋)

Derived characters

• 𨫳

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1032, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31010
• Dae Jaweon: page 1492, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3227, character 2
• Unihan data for U+837E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (允) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
唆	*sloːl
梭	*sloːl
葰	*sloːlʔ, *sroːlʔ, *slul
誜	*sroːls
朘	*ʔslon
捘	*ʔsluːls, *ʔsluːns, *sʰlun
荾	*slul
酸	*sloːn
狻	*sloːn
痠	*sloːn
鋑	*ʔslon
脧	*ʔsluːl
悛	*sʰlon
吮	*zlonʔ, *ɦljunʔ
萒	*ɡronʔ, *lonʔ
沇	*lonʔ
抁	*lonʔ
馻	*lonʔ, *lunʔ
兖	*lonʔ
渷	*lonʔ
兗	*lonʔ
焌	*ʔsluːns, *ʔsluns, *sʰlud
允	*lunʔ
狁	*lunʔ
玧	*lunʔ
俊	*ʔsluns
晙	*ʔsluns, *sluns
餕	*ʔsluns
畯	*ʔsluns
駿	*ʔsluns
竣	*sʰlun
皴	*sʰlun
逡	*sʰlun
踆	*sʰlun
夋	*sʰlun
埈	*sluns
陖	*sluns
鵕	*sluns
浚	*sluns
峻	*sluns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *slul): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 夋 (OC *sʰlun).

Etymology 1

trad.		荾
simp. #		荾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suī (sui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suei
    • Wade–Giles: sui¹
    • Yale: swēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suei
    • Palladius: суй (suj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seoi¹
    • Yale: sēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: swij

Rime
Character	荾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息遺切
Baxter	swij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷi/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swi/
Li Rong	/sui/
Wang Li	/swi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/swi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*slul/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	荾
Reading #	1/1
No.	16432
Phonetic component	允
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	綏
Old Chinese	/*slul/
Notes	集韻又同葰

Definitions

荾

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) stamen and gynoecium

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 荾 – see 荽. (This character is a variant form of 荽).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 荾 – see 葰. (This character is a variant form of 葰).