啜 · chuài
sip, suck up; sob, weep
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
sip, suck up; sob, weep
- Mandarin
- chuài
- Cantonese
- zyut3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 啜 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
セツ テツ セイ テイ エイ テチ セチ セ すするKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 철
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+555C
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 11 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
11 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 啜
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- trjwejH · 陟衛 反切 · #2391
- Middle Chinese
- dzywejH · 甞芮 反切 · #2413
- Middle Chinese
- tsyhwet · 昌悅 反切 · #3511
- Middle Chinese
- trjwet · 陟劣 反切 · #3512
- Middle Chinese
- tsyhwet · 姝雪 反切 · #3532
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 13765 · trjwejH = 蟹合三去祭知 · dzywejH = 蟹合三去祭常 · tsyhwet = 山合三入仙昌 · trjwet = 山合三入仙知 · tsyhwet = 山合三入仙昌
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- chuài
- kCantonese
- zyut3
- kDefinition
- sip, suck up; sob, weep
- kTotalStrokes
- 11
- kRSUnicode
- 30.8
- kGradeLevel
- 6
- kTGH
- 2013:4854
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- chuò,zhuó,chuài 10648.050
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chuài 0162.130 · chuò 0172.070
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chuài 051.150 · chuò 054.120
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- chuò粵zyut3 chuài粵zyut3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 陟衛 甞芮 昌悅 陟劣 姝雪
- Kangxi positions
- 0196.120
- Guangyun positions
- 376.18 379.19 499.14 499.22 500.56
- GSR references
- 0295c
- Cangjie
- REEE
- Four-corner
- 6704.7