趖

趖 U+8D96, 趖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D96 ← 趕 [U+8D95] CJK Unified Ideographs 趗 → [U+8D97]

Translingual

Han character

趖 (Kangxi radical 156, 走+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土人人人土 (GOOOG), four-corner 4880₁, composition ⿺走坐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1217, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37150
• Dae Jaweon: page 1686, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3489, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8D96

Chinese

simp. and trad.		趖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
脞	*sʰal, *sʰoːlʔ
侳	*ʔsal, *ʔsoːls
挫	*ʔsoːls
夎	*ʔsoːls
遳	*sʰloːl
銼	*sʰoːls, *zoːl, *zoːɡ
剉	*sʰoːls
莝	*sʰoːls
趖	*soːl
矬	*zoːl
痤	*zoːl
睉	*zoːl
坐	*zoːlʔ, *zoːls
座	*zoːls
髽	*ʔsroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *soːl): semantic 走 (“walking”) + phonetic 坐 (OC *zoːlʔ, *zoːls)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suō (suo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): so¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sò
• Northern Min (KCR): so̤̿
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sô

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suō
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suo
    • Wade–Giles: so¹
    • Yale: swō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suo
    • Palladius: со (so)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: so¹
    • Yale: sō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: so¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: so¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sò
    • Hakka Romanization System: so^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: so²
    • Sinological IPA: /so¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: so̤̿
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sô
    • Tâi-lô: sô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sooi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /so¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Singapore): /so²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: swa

Rime
Character	趖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇禾切
Baxter	swa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/suɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/suɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swa/
Li Rong	/suɑ/
Wang Li	/suɑ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/suɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suō
Expected Cantonese Reflex	so1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*soːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	趖
Reading #	1/1
No.	18059
Phonetic component	坐
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	莎
Old Chinese	/*soːl/

Definitions

趖

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to walk

   • 鋪葵蓆，豆蔻花間趖晚日。 [Ci, trad.]
     铺葵席，豆蔻花间趖晚日。 [Ci, simp.]

     From: 10^th century, 歐陽炯 (Ouyang Jiong), 《南鄉子》

     Pū kuí xí, dòukòu huā jiān suō wǎn rì. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (dialectal) to loiter, to wander about (especially to waste time)
3. (Southern Min) slow; sluggish

Compounds

• 四界趖
• 賴賴趖 / 赖赖趖 (lōa-lōa-sô) (Min Nan)
• 趖板

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C13747
• “趖”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.