suí
follow
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 隋 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 隨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to follow | ||
as one wishes | ||
at any time | ||
soon after | ||
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。” |
Sources
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