膵

See also: 脺

膵 U+81B5, 膵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81B5 ← 膴 [U+81B4] CJK Unified Ideographs 膶 → [U+81B6]

Translingual

Han character

膵 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月廿卜十 (BTYJ), four-corner 7424₈, composition ⿰⺼萃)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 996, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29920
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2106, character 10
• Unihan data for U+81B5

Chinese

trad.		膵
simp. #		膵
alternative forms		脺

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 膵.

Etymology

Spelling pronunciation, as 萃 (cuì).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cuì (cui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶, ceoi³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chūi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cuì
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cuèi
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻui⁴
    • Yale: tswèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuey
    • Palladius: цуй (cuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶, ceoi³
    • Yale: seuih, cheui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶, tsoey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁶, cêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/, /t͡sʰɵy̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chūi
    • Tâi-lô: tsuī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zui
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sui³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui³³/

Definitions

膵

1. (dated) pancreas

Synonyms

• 禾鐮鐵／禾镰铁 (Hakka)
• 胰 (yí)
• 胰子 (yízi) (informal, of a domestic animal)
• 胰腺 (yíxiàn)
• 胰臟／胰脏 (yízàng)
• 腰尺 (Xiamen Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 膵臟／膵脏 (cuìzàng)

 

Compounds

• 膵液
• 膵臟／膵脏 (cuìzàng)

 

Japanese

Glyph origin

Coined by Genshin Utagawa (宇田川玄真) in Ihan Teikō (医範提綱, 1805). Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : ⺼ (“body”) + 萃. A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”).

Kanji

膵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. pancreas

Readings

• Kan’yō-on: すい (sui)

Compounds

• 膵臓(すいぞう) (suizō)
• 膵島(すいとう) (suitō)
• 膵癌(すいがん) (suigan)

Korean

Hanja

膵 • (chwe) (hangeul 췌, revised chwe, McCune–Reischauer ch'we, Yale chwey)

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