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

𠊥, 𣶙, 𢯣, 淼, 𣸞, 㵘, 𤀁, 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

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
  - IPA (Singapore): /t͡sui⁴²/
  - IPA (Hui'an): /t͡sui⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Zhangpu, Taipei): /t͡sui⁵³/
  - 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/

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	/t͡ɕiuᴇ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʷiɛ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjuɛ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cwiə̆^X/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiue^X/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕǐwe^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕwie̯^X/
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	‹ tsywij^X ›
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

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) two rivers; wide river; confluence of rivers
(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

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

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