沝

沝 U+6C9D, 沝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C9D ← 沜 [U+6C9C] CJK Unified Ideographs 沞 → [U+6C9E]

Translingual

Han character

沝 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水水 (EE) or 難難水水 (XXEE), four-corner 1223₀, composition ⿰水水)

Derived characters

• 淼, 㵘

Additional Derived Characters

• 𠊥, 𣶙, 𢯣, 𣸞, 𤀁, 𲪫, 𧩁, 𣹳, 𣻣, 𨬛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 612, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17219
• Dae Jaweon: page 1005, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1557, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C9D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沝
alternative forms		𣲙

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
沝	*qʷljilʔ
水	*qʰʷljilʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 水 (“water; river”) + 水 (“water; river”). Compare 淼 (OC *mewʔ) and 㵘.

Etymology

Baxter & Sagart (2014) relate 沝 to 水 and reconstruct them both as 沝 (OC *turʔ) and 水 (OC *s.turʔ) respectively in Old Chinese. Sagart (2017) derives them both from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ; if true, see there for non-Sinitic cognates.

Even so, see 水 for its alternative reconstruction and etymology.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuǐ (zhui³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi² / ceoi⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): cūi / cṳ̄
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chúi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zui²

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): zui²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuěi
    • Wade–Giles: chui³
    • Yale: jwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: joei
    • Palladius: чжуй (čžuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zeoi² / ceoi⁴
    • Yale: jéui / chèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey² / tsoey⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêu² / cêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯³⁵/, /t͡sʰɵy̯²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cūi / cṳ̄
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui³³/, /t͡sy³³/

Note:

• cūi - literary (common);
• cṳ̄ - vernacular (only used in some words as the first syllable).

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, Hui'an, Zhangpu, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi
    • Tâi-lô: tsuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuie
    • Sinological IPA (Singapore): /t͡sui⁴²/
    • Sinological IPA (Hui'an): /t͡sui⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Zhangpu, Taipei): /t͡sui⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴¹/
Note: chúi.
• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zui²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsúi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui⁵²/
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: zui²
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sui³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyweX

Rime
Character	沝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	支 (12)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之累切
Baxter	tsyweX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiuᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʷiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjuɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cwiə̆X/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiueX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕǐweX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕwie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*turʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʷljilʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	沝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsywijX ›
Old Chinese	/*turʔ/
English	water (Min form)
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	沝
Reading #	1/1
No.	11947
Phonetic component	水
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	捶
Old Chinese	/*qʷljilʔ/
Notes	餘校依說文之壘切集韻之誄切入旨韻

Definitions

沝

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) two rivers; wide river; confluence of rivers
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 水 (shuǐ, “water; river (especially as a Min word)”)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǐ (zi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǐh
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ³
    • Yale: dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyy
    • Palladius: цзы (czy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩²¹⁴/

Definitions

沝

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) place where sandbars or gravelbars merge