隹

See also: 住, 往, and 佳

隹 U+96B9, 隹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96B9 ← 隸 [U+96B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 隺 → [U+96BA]

⾫ U+2FAB, ⾫ KANGXI RADICAL SHORT TAILED BIRD ← ⾪ [U+2FAA] Kangxi Radicals ⾬ → [U+2FAC]

Translingual

Stroke order (Sans-serif)

Stroke order

A short‐tailed bird

Han character

隹 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+0, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人土 (OG) or 難人土 (XOG), four-corner 2021₄/2021₅, composition ⿰亻⿱亠龶(GHT) or ⿰亻⿻主一(GHT) or ⿰亻⿳丿一龶(JK))

1. Kangxi radical #172, ⾫.

Usage notes

This character is used mostly as a character component. Note that, in Japanese and Korean scripts, the dot stroke (㇔) atop the radical (隹) is written from top-right to bottom-left (instead of top-left to bottom-right) as found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/隹
• 顀, 䳡, 售, 焦, 奞, 寉, 崔, 萑, 㮅, 䍜, 翟, 霍, 瞿, 截, 㕍, 㢈, 痽, 龨, 閵(𫔴), 暹, 嵟, 奪, 奮
• 倠, 准, 唯, 堆, 婎, 帷, 惟, 推, 淮, 猚, 陮, 進, 㫿, 椎, 㲝, 焳, 琟, 脽, 睢, 碓, 稚, 䊒, 維(维), 蜼, 誰(谁), 趡, 踓, 醀, 錐(锥), 䨀, 騅(骓), 魋, 䱦, 鵻, 䶆

Additional Derived Characters

• 𡹐, 𡿾, 𢜐, 𣨫, 𤙵, 𤽼, 𧚮, 𫄻, 𦑏, 𬚟, 𦩏, 𧣽, 𧳞, 𨌴, 𨲈, 𪟦, 𪻉, 𪹰, 𩋘, 𩜑, 𪍇, 𥽀, 𪏌, 𤒂, 𪘮
• 𠃲, 𢽝, 𬆨, 𧡖, 𪕪, 𢛧, 𤊙, 𪂣, 𫁒, 𥯄, 𦋜, 𫻼, 𪋇

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1364, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41937
• Dae Jaweon: page 1867, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4090, character 1
• Unihan data for U+96B9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		隹
2nd round simp.		⿰亻⿻乚二

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 隹
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s02596 Transcribed ancient scripts L31109 L31110 L31111 L31112 L31113 L31114 L04324 L04325 L04326 L04327 L04328 L04329 L04330 L04331 L04332 L04333 L04334 L04335
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

Pictogram (象形): a short‐tailed bird (e.g. a sparrow). In addition to referring to 隹 (OC *tjul, “short-tailed bird”), it also is the original form of 鷕 (OC *ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ, “cry of a bird”) with the intermediate form 唯.

Compare 鳥.

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *twil; compare Tibetan མཆིལ་པ (mchil pa, “a little bird”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Cognate with 鵻 (OC *tjul) "a kind of bird (turtle-dove?)" > 騅 (OC *tjul) "horse of that bird's color > horse of mixed grey and white color".

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuī (zhui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chui

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuei
    • Wade–Giles: chui¹
    • Yale: jwēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juei
    • Palladius: чжуй (čžuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zeoi¹
    • Yale: jēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chui
    • Tâi-lô: tsui
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuy
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsywij

Rime
Character	隹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職追切
Baxter	tsywij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiuɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʷi/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjuɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cwi/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕui/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕwi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕwi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tur/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjul/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsywij ›
Old Chinese	/*tur/
English	a kind of bird
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	隹
Reading #	1/1
No.	17718
Phonetic component	隹
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	錐
Old Chinese	/*tjul/

Definitions

隹

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) short-tailed bird
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 唯 (wéi, “to be”).

Compounds

• 隹字邊 / 隹字边 (zhuīzìbiān)

Japanese

Kanji

隹

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. bird

Readings

• Go-on: すい (sui)
• Kan-on: すい (sui)
• Kun: とり (tori, 隹)、ふるとり (furutori, 隹)

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
隹
ふるとり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

• (Tokyo) ふるとり [fùrútórí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ɾɯ̟to̞ɾʲi]

Noun

隹(ふるとり) • (furutori) 

1. the name of the "old bird" radical (隹), e.g. 隺

Note

• It is called "old" bird because it is contained in the character "舊"(old), to distinguish it from other bird radicals (鳥, 酉).

Korean

Hanja

隹 (eum 추 (chu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

隹: Hán Nôm readings: chuy

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