遂

See also: 逐

Translingual

Han character

遂 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜廿心人 (YTPO), four-corner 3830₃, composition ⿺辶㒸)

Derived terms

• 燧, 穟, 邃, 襚, 旞, 𨽵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1260, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38985
• Dae Jaweon: page 1751, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3862, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9042

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Chinese

trad.		遂
simp. #		遂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 遂
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
隊	*l'uːds
邃	*sluds
譢	*sluds
遂	*ljuds
隧	*ljuds
燧	*ljuds
襚	*ljuds
旞	*ljuds
璲	*ljuds
檖	*ljuds
澻	*ljuds
鐆	*ljuds
鐩	*ljuds
穟	*ljuds
墜	*l'uds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljuds) : semantic 辵 + phonetic 㒸 ().

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suì (sui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶
• Northern Min (KCR): sṳ̄
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sūi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sui⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suèi
    • Wade–Giles: sui⁴
    • Yale: swèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suey
    • Palladius: суй (suj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶
    • Yale: seuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sṳ̄
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sy⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sūi
    • Tâi-lô: suī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sui
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sui²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sui²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sui³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sui³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sui⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sûi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sui⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 遂
Mandarin	Beijing	/suei⁵¹/
	Harbin	/suei²⁴/
	Tianjin	/suei⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/suei⁴²/
	Qingdao	/sue⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/suei⁴²/
	Xi'an	/suei²⁴/
	Xining	/suɨ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/suei⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/suei¹³/
	Ürümqi	/suei⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/sei³⁵/
	Chengdu	/ɕy¹³/ /suei¹³/
	Guiyang	/ɕi²¹³/
	Kunming	/suei²¹²/
	Nanjing	/suəi⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/se⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/suei⁴⁵/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/suei⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/zø²³/
	Suzhou	/ze̞³¹/
	Hangzhou	/zz̩ʷei¹³/
	Wenzhou	/zz̩²²/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰy²²/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/sei⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/səi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/sui²¹/ ～川縣
Hakka	Meixian	/sui⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/sui⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/søy²²/
	Nanning	/ɬui²²/
	Hong Kong	/søy²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/sui²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/suɔi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/sy⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/sui⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/t͡sui³³/

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• Middle Chinese: zwijH

Rime
Character	遂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	徐醉切
Baxter	zwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷiH/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwiH/
Li Rong	/zuiH/
Wang Li	/zwiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/zwiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə-lu[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljuds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	suì
Middle Chinese	‹ zwijH ›
Old Chinese	/*sə-lu[t]-s/
English	advance (v.)
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	遂
Reading #	1/1
No.	12148
Phonetic component	遂
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	遂
Old Chinese	/*ljuds/
Notes	初文無辵，象呼豕前來

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 遂

1. to fulfill; to satisfy
2. to comply; to follow along
3. to complete; to succeed
4. then; consequently; thereupon
5. ^† to proceed; to head for
6. ^† to recommend; to promote
7. ^† to grow; to rear

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Japanese

Kanji

遂

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ずい (zui)^{←ずゐ (zwi, historical)}
• Kan-on: すい (sui, Jōyō)^{←すゐ (swi, historical)}
• Kun: とぐ (togu, 遂ぐ); とげる (togeru, 遂げる, Jōyō); ついに (tsuini, 遂に)^{←つひに (tufini, 遂に, historical)}

Usage notes

• Most dictionaries do not have "すゐ" and "ずゐ" as a historical reading for 遂. According to historical data, its on-reading are the modern "すい" and "ずい". However, the Dai Kanwa Jiten has the -ゐ historical on-readings.

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Korean

Hanja

遂 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 遂 (toại)

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