綏

See also: 绥

綏 U+7D8F, 綏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D8F ← 綎 [U+7D8E] CJK Unified Ideographs 綐 → [U+7D90]

Translingual

Han character

綏 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女火月女 (VFBV), four-corner 2294₄, composition ⿰糹妥)

1. soothe, appease, pacify
2. carriage harness

Derived characters

• 𬧗, 䕑

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 925, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27501
• Dae Jaweon: page 1360, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3406, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7D8F

Chinese

trad.		綏
simp.		绥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
妥	*n̥ʰoːlʔ
鵎	*n̥ʰoːlʔ
挼	*noːl, *snuːl
骽	*n̥ʰuːlʔ
脮	*n̥ʰuːlʔ, *nuːlʔ
餒	*nuːlʔ
浽	*nuːlʔ, *snul
娞	*nuːlʔ
鮾	*nuːlʔ
綏	*snul
荽	*snul
鋖	*snɯl
桵	*njul

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *snul) : semantic 糹／纟 (“silk”) + phonetic 妥 (OC *n̥ʰoːlʔ, “to comfort”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suí, suī

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˊ, ㄙㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sui

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suí
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suéi
    • Wade–Giles: sui²
    • Yale: swéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: swei
    • Palladius: суй (suj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
    • 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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sui
    • Tâi-lô: sui
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suy
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sui³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sui⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: swij

Rime
Character	綏
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/
Bernard Karlgren	/swi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.nuj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*snul/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	綏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	suí
Middle Chinese	‹ swij ›
Old Chinese	/*s.nuj/
English	comfort (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	綏
Reading #	1/1
No.	12596
Phonetic component	妥
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	綏
Old Chinese	/*snul/

Definitions

綏

1. (literary) cord held when mounting a carriage
2. (literary) to pacify; to placate

   • 惠此中國，以綏四方。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     惠此中国，以绥四方。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Huì cǐ Zhōngguó, yǐ suí sìfāng. [Pinyin]

     Let us cherish this centre of the kingdom,
     To secure the repose of the four quarters of it.

3. (historical) Short for 綏遠／绥远 (Suíyuǎn, “Suiyuan province”).

Compounds

• 交綏／交绥
• 寵綏／宠绥
• 平綏鐵路／平绥铁路
• 惠綏／惠绥
• 撫綏／抚绥 (fǔsuí)
• 歸綏／归绥 (Guīsuí)
• 死綏／死绥
• 福履增綏／福履增绥
• 綏來／绥来 (suílái)
• 綏定／绥定 (suídìng)
• 綏寧／绥宁 (suíníng)
• 綏撫／绥抚
• 綏服／绥服
• 綏綏／绥绥
• 綏芬河／绥芬河 (suífēnhé)
• 綏遠／绥远 (suíyuǎn)
• 綏靖／绥靖 (suíjìng)
• 綏靖主義／绥靖主义 (suíjìng zhǔyì)
• 蔘綏／𦲞绥
• 靖綏／靖绥

 

Japanese

Kanji

綏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: すい (sui)^{←すゐ (swi, historical)}
• Kan-on: すい (sui)^{←すゐ (swi, historical)}
• On: た (ta)
• Kun: やすい (yasui, 綏い)
• Nanori: たかし (takashi); やす (yasu); やすし (yasushi)

Korean

Hanja

綏 • (yu, su) (hangeul 유, 수, revised yu, su, McCune–Reischauer yu, su, Yale yu, swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

綏: Hán Nôm readings: tuy, nối

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