翠

See also: 翆

翠 U+7FE0, 翠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FE0 ← 翟 [U+7FDF] CJK Unified Ideographs 翡 → [U+7FE1]

Translingual

Han character

翠 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸一卜人十 (SMYOJ), four-corner 1740₈, composition ⿱羽卒)

Derived characters

• 噿 濢 𣝦 璻 臎 䕜

Descendants

• 翆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 957, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28732
• Dae Jaweon: page 1403, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3350, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7FE0

Chinese

trad.		翠
simp. #		翠
2nd round simp.		翆
alternative forms		翆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 翠
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
晬	*ʔsuːds
祽	*ʔsuːds
綷	*ʔsuːds
淬	*sʰuːds
啐	*sʰuːds, *suːds, *sʰroːds, *ʔsud
倅	*sʰuːds, *ʔsuːd
焠	*sʰuːds
碎	*suːds
誶	*suːds, *suds, *zud
濢	*ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
噿	*ʔslulʔ
臎	*ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
醉	*ʔsuds
翠	*sʰuds
悴	*zuds
萃	*zuds
瘁	*zuds
顇	*zuds
粹	*suds
睟	*suds
賥	*suds
卒	*ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud
稡	*ʔsuːd
猝	*sʰuːd
椊	*zuːd
捽	*zuːd, *zud
崪	*zuːd
窣	*suːd
崒	*zud
踤	*zud
錊	*ʔsuːɡ

Etymology

From 淬 (OC *sʰuːds, “to dip into liquid, to plunge, to temper, to dye, etc.”), as kingfishers dive underwater to catch fish (Schuessler, 2007).

The "blue-green, cyan" > "bright" senses are because of the kingfishers' plumages.

Definitions

翠

1. kingfisher, especially a cyan or blue one
2. kingfisher feathers
3. green jade; jadeite
4. blue-green; cyan
5. bright; distinct

Compounds

• 珠翠 (zhūcuì)
• 翠亨 (Cuìhēng)
• 翠微 (cuìwēi)
• 翠玉
• 翠生生
• 翠碧
• 翠綠／翠绿 (cuìlǜ)
• 翡翠 (fěicuì)
• 翠花鋪／翠花铺 (Cuìhuāpù)
• 翠菊 (cuìjú)
• 翠藍／翠蓝
• 翠鳥／翠鸟 (cuìniǎo)
• 鮮翠／鲜翠 (xiāncuì)

 

Japanese

Shinjitai	翠
Kyūjitai	翠󠄁 翠+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	翠󠄄 翠+󠄄? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

翠

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. green

Readings

• Go-on: すい (sui)^{←すい (sui, historical)}
• Kan-on: すい (sui)^{←すい (sui, historical)}
• Kun: かわせみ (kawasemi, 翠); みどり (midori, 翠)
• Nanori: あきら (akira)

Alternative forms

• 翆

Compounds

• 翠(すい)雨(う) (suiu)
• 翠(すい)影(えい) (suiei)
• 翠(すい)煙(えん), 翠(すい)烟(えん) (suien)
• 翠(すい)花(か), 翠(すい)華(か) (suika)
• 翠(すい)霞(か) (suika)
• 翠(すい)蓋(がい) (suigai)
• 翠(すい)玉(ぎょく) (suigyoku)
• 翠(すい)袖(しゅう)紅(こう)裙(くん) (suishū kōkun)
• 翠(すい)松(しょう) (suishō)
• 翠(すい)色(しょく) (suishoku)
• 翠(すい)苔(たい) (suitai)
• 翠(すい)黛(たい) (suitai)
• 翠(すい)帳(ちょう) (suichō)
• 翠(すい)眉(び) (suibi)
• 翠(すい)微(び) (suibi)
• 翠(すい)嵐(らん) (suiran)
• 翠(すい)巒(らん) (suiran)
• 翠(すい)柳(りゅう) (suiryū)
• 翠(すい)緑(りょく) (suiryoku)
• 翠(すい)嶺(れい) (suirei)
• 翠(すい)簾(れん) (suiren)
• 翠(すい)楼(ろう) (suirō)
• 空(くう)翠(すい) (kūsui)
• 松(しょう)翠(すい) (shōsui)
• 青(せい)翠(すい) (seisui)
• 積(せき)翠(すい) (sekisui)
• 蒼(そう)翠(すい) (sōsui)
• 暖(だん)翠(すい) (dansui)
• 晩(ばん)翠(すい) (bansui)
• 翡(ひ)翠(すい) (hisui)
• 幽(ゆう)翠(すい) (yūsui)
• 嵐(らん)翠(すい) (ransui)
• 偎(わい)紅(こう)倚(い)翠(すい) (waikō isui)

 

Noun

Kanji in this term
翠
みどり Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 翠 – see the following entry.

【緑みどり】3 [noun] green (color) [noun] verdure [noun] a new bud or shoot [noun] (archaic) in the Edo Period, an apprentice to a high-ranking courtesan, from ages six or seven through thirteen or fourteen [noun] in kabuki and 浄瑠璃 (jōruri, “puppet theater”), performing just the main parts of a work and omitting the 狂言 (kyōgen) [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname

(This term, 翠, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Proper noun

Kanji in this term
翠
みどり Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

翠(みどり) • (Midori) 

1. a female given name

Korean

Hanja

翠 • (chwi) (hangeul 취, revised chwi, McCune–Reischauer ch'wi, Yale chwi)

Vietnamese

Han character

翠: Hán Việt readings: thúy/thuý

1. chữ Hán form of Thuý (“female given name”).