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U+5E25, 帥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E25

[U+5E24]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5E26]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 50, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹口中月 (HRLB), four-corner 24727, composition 𠂤)

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 331, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8886
  • Dae Jaweon: page 636, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 737, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5E25

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意): (two hands) + (scarf) - to wear a scarf. Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *sruds, *srud): phonetic 𠂤 (*C.tˤuj) + semantic .

Etymology[edit]

Also written as (OC *sruds, *rud, *srud, “to lead”); both represent the s-causative of (OC *rud, “to follow”). Cognate with Tibetan སྲིད (srid, commander, leader).

Pronunciation[edit]



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂuai⁵¹/
Harbin /ʂuai⁵³/
/suai⁵³/
Tianjin /suai⁵³/
Jinan /ʂuɛ²¹/
Qingdao /ʂuɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʂuai³¹²/
Xi'an /fai⁴⁴/
Xining /fɛ²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʂuɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /fɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /ʂuai²¹³/
/fai²¹³/
Wuhan /suai³⁵/
Chengdu /suai¹³/
Guiyang /suai²¹³/
Kunming /ʂuæ²¹²/
Nanjing /ʂuae⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʂue̞⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /suai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /suæ³⁵/
Hohhot /suɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /se³⁵/
Suzhou /se̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷe̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /sa⁴²/
Hui Shexian /sɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /sə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /ɕyai⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /sai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /sai⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /sai⁵³/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /søy³³/
Nanning /sui³³/
Hong Kong /søy³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sue²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /sɔy²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /suɛ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /sue²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /suai³⁵/
/sɔi³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (21) (21)
Final () (18) (52)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter srwijH srwit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠiuɪH/ /ʃiuɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃʷᵚiH/ /ʃʷit̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃiuɪH/ /ʃjuet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂjwiH/ /ʂwit̚/
Li
Rong
/ʃjuiH/ /ʃiuĕt̚/
Wang
Li
/ʃwiH/ /ʃĭuĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂwiH/ /ʂi̯uĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shuài shuai
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
seoi3 seot1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shuài
Middle
Chinese
‹ srwijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-rut-s/
English leader (of an army)

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11929 11930
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sruds/ /*srud/
Notes

Definitions[edit]

  1. (military) to command; to lead (and give orders to); to designate
  2. to lead; to guide
  3. (to be a) role model; example
  4. to follow; to adhere to
      ―  shuàijiào  ―  to follow guidance
  5. rapid; sharp; sudden
      ―  shuàirán  ―  suddenly, rapidly
      ―  shuài'ěr  ―  rapidly
  6. commander-in-chief; marshal
  7. officialdom; senior officials
  8. (of a person or a thing) leader; guider; leading factor
  9. (xiangqi) marshal; the chief piece (on the red side)
  10. (colloquial, of men) handsome; good-looking; hot
      ―  shuàidāi  ―  to be very good-looking
      ―  shuài  ―  handsome guy
  11. (colloquial) elegant; beautiful; splendid; impressive
  12. a surname: Shuai

Synonyms[edit]

  • (handsome):

Coordinate terms[edit]

See also[edit]

  • (shuì, “shawl, mantelet”) - may be used interchangeably; forms the character etymology of 帥.
  • (shuài, “to lead”) - may be used interchangeably
  • (jiàng, “officer”)

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. commander

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC srwijH). Recorded as Middle Korean 슈〮 (syú) (Yale: syu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 장수 (jangsu su))

  1. Hanja form? of (commander).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: suất, súy/suý, súy/suý, soái

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