溯

See also: 泝

溯 U+6EAF, 溯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EAF ← 溮 [U+6EAE] CJK Unified Ideographs 溰 → [U+6EB0]

Translingual

Han character

溯 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水廿山月 (ETUB), four-corner 3712₀, composition ⿰氵朔)

Derived characters

• 𭏺

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 640, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17975
• Dae Jaweon: page 1048, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1708, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6EAF

Chinese

trad.		溯
simp. #		溯
alternative forms		遡 泝 愬 㴑 溸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 溯
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
斥	*ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴	*sŋaːɡs
泝	*sŋaːɡs
愬	*sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ
遡	*sŋaːɡs
塑	*sŋaːɡs
溯	*sŋaːɡs
遻	*ŋaːɡs
柝	*tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚	*ŋaːɡ
諤	*ŋaːɡ
齶	*ŋaːɡ
鍔	*ŋaːɡ
遌	*ŋaːɡ
崿	*ŋaːɡ
偔	*ŋaːɡ
堮	*ŋaːɡ
湂	*ŋaːɡ
鱷	*ŋaːɡ
噩	*ŋaːɡ
咢	*ŋaːɡ
鑩	*ŋaːɡ
鄂	*ŋaːɡ
鰐	*ŋaːɡ
萼	*ŋaːɡ
愕	*ŋaːɡ
顎	*ŋaːɡ
朔	*sŋraːɡ
槊	*sraːwɢ
蒴	*sraːwɢ
坼	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆	*ŋraɡ
屰	*ŋraɡ
縌	*ŋraɡ
蝷	*reːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋaːɡs): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 朔 (OC *sŋraːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sù (su⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sò͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): suag⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sù
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sù
    • Wade–Giles: su⁴
    • Yale: sù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
    • Palladius: су (su)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sou³
    • Yale: sou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘
    • Tâi-lô: sòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sox
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: suag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: suak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /suak̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: suH

Rime
Character	溯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	桑故切
Baxter	suH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suoH/
Pan Wuyun	/suoH/
Shao Rongfen	/soH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɔH/
Li Rong	/soH/
Wang Li	/suH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/suoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sou3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋaːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	溯
Reading #	1/1
No.	9447
Phonetic component	屰
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	訴
Old Chinese	/*sŋaːɡs/
Notes	泝或體

Definitions

溯

1. to go upstream; to go against a current
2. to trace back; to recall

Compounds

• 上溯 (shàngsù)
• 不溯既往
• 回溯 (huísù)
• 推本溯源
• 探本溯源
• 文溯閣 / 文溯阁
• 正本溯源
• 沿流溯源
• 泝溯 / 溯溯
• 溯洄 (sùhuí)
• 溯流徂源
• 溯流從源 / 溯流从源
• 溯流求源
• 溯游
• 溯源 (sùyuán)
• 溯源窮流 / 溯源穷流
• 窮源溯流 / 穷源溯流
• 追本溯源 (zhuīběnsùyuán)
• 追溯 (zhuīsù)
• 逆溯

Japanese

Kanji

溯

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そ (so)
• Kun: さかのぼる (sakanoboru, 溯る)

Korean

Hanja

溯 • (so, sak) (hangeul 소, 삭, revised so, sak, McCune–Reischauer so, sak, Yale so, sak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

溯: Hán Nôm readings: tố

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References

• Nom Foundation