騅

See also: 骓

騅 U+9A05, 騅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9A05 ← 騄 [U+9A04] CJK Unified Ideographs 騆 → [U+9A06]

Translingual

Han character

騅 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+8, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸火人土 (SFOG), four-corner 7031₄, composition ⿰馬隹)

1. piebald horse

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1440, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44788
• Dae Jaweon: page 1964, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4562, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9A05

Chinese

trad.		騅
simp.		骓

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuī (zhui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chui

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zui¹

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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
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zui¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsui
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsywij

Rime
Character	騅
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/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕwi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjul/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	騅
Reading #	1/1
No.	17721
Phonetic component	隹
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	錐
Old Chinese	/*tjul/

Definitions

騅

1. (literary) piebald horse (horse of mixed gray and white color)
2. The name of the ancient warlord Xiang Yu's horse.

   • 「力拔山兮氣蓋世，時不利兮騅不逝。騅不逝兮可柰何，虞兮虞兮柰若何！」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     「力拔山兮气盖世，时不利兮骓不逝。骓不逝兮可柰何，虞兮虞兮柰若何！」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     “Lì bá shān xī qì gài shì, shí bùlì xī Zhuī bù shì. Zhuī bù shì xī kě nàihé, Yú xī Yú xī nài ruò hé!” [Pinyin]

     [Xiang Yu said,] "My strength uprooted mountains, and my vigor covered the world; but the times are against me, and Piebald will not run. Piebald will not run; what can I do? O Yu [the name of Xiang Yu's beloved], o Yu, what can I do for you?"

Japanese

Kanji

騅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): すい (sui)
• Kun: あしげ (ashige)

Korean

Hanja

騅 (eum 추 (chu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

騅: Hán Nôm readings: choai, chuy

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