訴

See also: 诉 and 訢

Translingual

Han character

訴 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜口竹一卜 (YRHMY), four-corner 0263₁, composition ⿰言斥)

1. accuse
2. sue
3. inform
4. narrate

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1152, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35325
• Dae Jaweon: page 1618, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3955, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8A34

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Chinese

trad.		訴
simp.		诉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
斥	*ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴	*sŋaːɡs
泝	*sŋaːɡs
愬	*sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ
遡	*sŋaːɡs
塑	*sŋaːɡs
溯	*sŋaːɡs
遻	*ŋaːɡs
柝	*tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚	*ŋaːɡ
諤	*ŋaːɡ
齶	*ŋaːɡ
鍔	*ŋaːɡ
遌	*ŋaːɡ
崿	*ŋaːɡ
偔	*ŋaːɡ
堮	*ŋaːɡ
湂	*ŋaːɡ
鱷	*ŋaːɡ
噩	*ŋaːɡ
咢	*ŋaːɡ
鑩	*ŋaːɡ
鄂	*ŋaːɡ
鰐	*ŋaːɡ
萼	*ŋaːɡ
愕	*ŋaːɡ
顎	*ŋaːɡ
朔	*sŋraːɡ
槊	*sraːwɢ
蒴	*sraːwɢ
坼	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆	*ŋraɡ
屰	*ŋraɡ
縌	*ŋraɡ
蝷	*reːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sŋaːɡs) : semantic 言 (“word, speak”) + phonetic 斥 (OC *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ) – to accuse verbally, reinforced by 斥 meaning “accuse, blame”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sù (su⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sò͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sù
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sù
    • Wade–Giles: su⁴
    • Yale: sù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
    • Palladius: су (su)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sou³
    • Yale: sou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘
    • Tâi-lô: sòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sox
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: suH

Rime
Character	訴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	桑故切
Baxter	suH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suoH/
Pan Wuyun	/suoH/
Shao Rongfen	/soH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɔH/
Li Rong	/soH/
Wang Li	/suH/
Bernard Karlgren	/suoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sou3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-ŋˤak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋaːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	訴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sù
Middle Chinese	‹ suH ›
Old Chinese	/*s-ŋˁak-s/
English	complain, accuse
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	訴
Reading #	1/1
No.	9442
Phonetic component	屰
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	訴
Old Chinese	/*sŋaːɡs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 訴

1. to tell; to relate; to inform
2. to vent; to pour out
3. to accuse; to charge; to indict

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Japanese

Kanji

訴

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. accuse, appeal, complain, sue

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そ (so, Jōyō)
• Kun: うったえる (uttaeru, 訴える, Jōyō); うったえ (uttae, 訴え)

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Korean

Hanja

訴 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 訴 (tố, tỏ, túa, tò, tuá)

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