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随

suí

follow

Simplified form of 隨. Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 陏 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

陏 sound component

陏  Sound component

suí

  

follow

Evolution

随 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
随 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
随 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

随 (隨) 

suí

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

随 (隨) 

Suí

surname Sui

Most common words with 随
Freq.
Word
Meaning

随

to follow

随便

as one wishes

随时

at any time

随后

soon after

随意

as one wishes

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 76.3415% of movies

539th most common character in movies

498th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

隨

Unicode

U+968F


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