suí

follow

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

is a component form of .

隋 sound component

  Sound component

suí

  

Sui dynasty

Evolution

隨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
隨 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
隨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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suí

follow, listen to, submit; to accompany; subsequently, then; to follow; to comply with; varying according to...; to allow; subsequently

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Suí

surname Sui

Most common words with 隨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to follow

随便

as one wishes

随时

at any time

随后

soon after

随意

as one wishes

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə.loj

zjwe

suí

follow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 76.3415% of movies

539th most common character in movies

498th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+96A8

Shuowen

“隨,从也。从辵,省聲。”


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