Hanja Analyzer
陲

陲 — su

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
변방 수, 위태할 수
Romanization
su
English
frontier, border
Mandarin
chuí
Japanese on'yomi
スイ, ズイ
Japanese kun'yomi
ほとり
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
10
Radical
阜 (170, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
垂
Unicode
U+9672

Parts that make up 陲

  • ⻖ 언덕 부variant of 阜 층진 언덕언덕과 높낮이. 왼쪽에서 ⻖ 로 쓴다
  • 垂 드리울 수sound 늘어진 가지 끝드리움. ‘수·추·타’ 계열의 소리

How 陲 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 陲 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 阜, 垂.

Characters sharing the phonetic 垂

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “수”

Other hanja with radical 阜

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