suì
comply with
Original meaning:
to flee
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 㒸 represents the sound. The meaning later shifted to "follow along" and "comply with".

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Modernsuì
comply with, follow along; thereupon; to satisfy; to succeed; then; finally; unexpectedly; to proceed; to reach
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
then | ||
unsuccessful (attempt) | ||
Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu 楚 of the Warring states) | ||
hemiplegia | ||
Suining prefecture level city in Sichuan |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*sə-lu[t]-s | zwijH | suì | advance (v.) |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.4347% of movies
2902nd most common character in movies
2017th most common character in books
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+9042 |
Shuowen | “遂,亡也。从辵,聲。,古文遂。” |
李学勤《字源》p.128
