翠

See also: 翆
翠 U+7FE0, 翠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FE0
← 翟
[U+7FDF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 翡 →
[U+7FE1]

Translingual

Han character

翠 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸一卜人十 (SMYOJ), four-corner 17408, composition ⿱羽卒)

Derived characters

Descendants

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 957, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28732
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1403, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3350, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7FE0

Chinese
trad. 翠
simp. # 翠
2nd round simp. 翆
alternative forms 翆

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 翠
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (卒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
晬 *ʔsuːds
祽 *ʔsuːds
綷 *ʔsuːds
淬 *sʰuːds
啐 *sʰuːds, *suːds, *sʰroːds, *ʔsud
倅 *sʰuːds, *ʔsuːd
焠 *sʰuːds
碎 *suːds
誶 *suːds, *suds, *zud
濢 *ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
噿 *ʔslulʔ
臎 *ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
醉 *ʔsuds
翠 *sʰuds
悴 *zuds
萃 *zuds
瘁 *zuds
顇 *zuds
粹 *suds
睟 *suds
賥 *suds
卒 *ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud
稡 *ʔsuːd
猝 *sʰuːd
椊 *zuːd
捽 *zuːd, *zud
崪 *zuːd
窣 *suːd
崒 *zud
踤 *zud
錊 *ʔsuːɡ

Etymology

From 淬 (OC *sʰuːds, “to dip into liquid, to plunge, to temper, to dye, etc.”), as kingfishers dive underwater to catch fish (Schuessler, 2007).

The "blue-green, cyan" > "bright" senses are because of the kingfishers' plumages.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 翠
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sʰuei⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sʰuei²¹/
Qingdao /t͡sʰue⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰuei³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sʰuei⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sʰuɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰuei²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰei³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Guiyang /t͡sʰuei²¹³/
Kunming /t͡sʰuei²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡sʰuəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sʰe⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡sʰuei³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sʰuei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰe³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰe̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰz̩ʷei⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰai⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰye³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰe⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰui²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰui⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰøy³³/
Nanning /t͡sʰui³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰøy³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sʰui²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰuɔi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sʰy³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sʰui²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sui³⁵/
Rime
Character 翠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 七醉切
Baxter tshwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰiuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰjuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰwiH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰuiH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰwiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cuì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 ceoi3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 翠
Reading # 1/1
No. 17944
Phonetic
component		 卒
Rime
group		 隊
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 翠
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰuds/

Definitions

翠

  1. kingfisher, especially a cyan or blue one
  2. kingfisher feathers
  3. green jade; jadeite
  4. blue-green; cyan
  5. bright; distinct

Compounds

Japanese
Shinjitai 翠
Kyūjitai
[1][2][3]
翠󠄁
翠+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
翠󠄄
翠+󠄄?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji
翠

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. green

Readings

Alternative forms

Compounds
  • 翠(すい)雨(う) (suiu)
  • 翠(すい)影(えい) (suiei)
  • 翠(すい)煙(えん), 翠(すい)烟(えん) (suien)
  • 翠(すい)花(か), 翠(すい)華(か) (suika)
  • 翠(すい)霞(か) (suika)
  • 翠(すい)蓋(がい) (suigai)
  • 翠(すい)玉(ぎょく) (suigyoku)
  • 翠(すい)袖(しゅう)紅(こう)裙(くん) (suishū kōkun)
  • 翠(すい)松(しょう) (suishō)
  • 翠(すい)色(しょく) (suishoku)
  • 翠(すい)苔(たい) (suitai)
  • 翠(すい)黛(たい) (suitai)
  • 翠(すい)帳(ちょう) (suichō)
  • 翠(すい)眉(び) (suibi)
  • 翠(すい)微(び) (suibi)
  • 翠(すい)嵐(らん) (suiran)
  • 翠(すい)巒(らん) (suiran)
  • 翠(すい)柳(りゅう) (suiryū)
  • 翠(すい)緑(りょく) (suiryoku)
  • 翠(すい)嶺(れい) (suirei)
  • 翠(すい)簾(れん) (suiren)
  • 翠(すい)楼(ろう) (suirō)
  • 空(くう)翠(すい) (kūsui)
  • 松(しょう)翠(すい) (shōsui)
  • 青(せい)翠(すい) (seisui)
  • 積(せき)翠(すい) (sekisui)
  • 蒼(そう)翠(すい) (sōsui)
  • 暖(だん)翠(すい) (dansui)
  • 晩(ばん)翠(すい) (bansui)
  • 翡(ひ)翠(すい) (hisui)
  • 幽(ゆう)翠(すい) (yūsui)
  • 嵐(らん)翠(すい) (ransui)
  • 偎(わい)紅(こう)倚(い)翠(すい) (waikō isui)

Noun
Kanji in this term
翠
みどり
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 翠 – see the following entry.
【緑みどり】3
[noun] green (color)
[noun] verdure
[noun] a new bud or shoot
[noun] (archaic) in the Edo Period, an apprentice to a high-ranking courtesan, from ages six or seven through thirteen or fourteen
[noun] in kabuki and 浄瑠璃 (jōruri, “puppet theater”), performing just the main parts of a work and omitting the 狂言 (kyōgen)
[proper noun] a female given name
[proper noun] a surname
(This term, 翠, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Proper noun
Kanji in this term
翠
みどり
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

翠(みどり) • (Midori) 

  1. a female given name

References
  1. 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “翠”, in 字通 (Jitsū)‎ (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN
  2. Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1715 (paper), page 909 (digital)
  3. Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 971 (paper), page 498 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

翠 • (chwi) (hangeul 취, revised chwi, McCune–Reischauer ch'wi, Yale chwi)

Vietnamese

Han character

翠: Hán Việt readings: thúy/thuý

  1. chữ Hán form of Thuý (“female given name”).
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