# 溯

| 溯 | U+6EAF, &#28335; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EAF |
| ← 溮 [U+6EAE] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 溰 → [U+6EB0] |

## Translingual
### Han character

溯 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水廿山月 (ETUB), four-corner 3712$_0$, composition ⿰氵朔)

#### Derived characters

* 𭏺

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 640, character 30
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17975
* Dae Jaweon: page 1048, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1708, character 1
* Unihan data for U+6EAF

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 斥 | *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ |
| 訴 | *sŋaːɡs |
| 泝 | *sŋaːɡs |
| 愬 | *sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ |
| 遡 | *sŋaːɡs |
| 塑 | *sŋaːɡs |
| 溯 | *sŋaːɡs |
| 遻 | *ŋaːɡs |
| 柝 | *tŋ̊ʰaːɡ |
| 鶚 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 諤 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 齶 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 鍔 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 遌 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 崿 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 偔 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 堮 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 湂 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 鱷 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 噩 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 咢 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 鑩 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 鄂 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 鰐 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 萼 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 愕 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 顎 | *ŋaːɡ |
| 朔 | *sŋraːɡ |
| 槊 | *sraːwɢ |
| 蒴 | *sraːwɢ |
| 坼 | *tŋ̊ʰraːɡ |
| 拆 | *tŋ̊ʰraːɡ |
| 逆 | *ŋraɡ |
| 屰 | *ŋraɡ |
| 縌 | *ŋraɡ |
| 蝷 | *reːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sŋaːɡs) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 朔 (OC *sŋraːɡ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sù (su$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sou$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): sò͘
    (Teochew, Peng'im): suag$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sù
*** Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sù
*** Wade–Giles: su$^4$
*** Yale: sù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suh
*** Palladius: су (su)
*** Sinological IPA : /su⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sou$^3$
*** Yale: sou
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sou$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sou$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /sou̯³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘
*** Tâi-lô: sòo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sox
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /sɔ¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ²¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: suag$^4$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: suak
*** Sinological IPA : /suak̚²/
* Middle Chinese: suH
Rime :
| Character | 溯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 桑故切 |
| Baxter | suH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /suo$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /suo$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /so$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sɔ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /so$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /su$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /suo$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | sù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sou$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*sŋaːɡs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 溯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9447 |
| Phonetic component | 屰 |
| Rime group | 暮 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 訴 |
| Old Chinese | /*sŋaːɡs/ |
| Notes | 泝或體 |

### Definitions

溯
* to go upstream; to go against a current
* to trace back; to recall

### Compounds

* 上溯 (shàngsù)
* 不溯既往
* 回溯 (huísù)
* 推本溯源
* 探本溯源
* 文溯閣／文溯阁
* 正本溯源
* 沿流溯源
* 泝溯／溯溯
* 溯洄 (sùhuí)
* 溯流徂源
* 溯流從源／溯流从源
* 溯流求源
* 溯游
* 溯源 (sùyuán)
* 溯源窮流／溯源穷流
* 窮源溯流／穷源溯流
* 追本溯源 (zhuīběnsùyuán)
* 追溯 (zhuīsù)
* 逆溯

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: す (su)
* Kan-on: そ (so)
* Kun: さかのぼる (sakanoboru, 溯る)

## Korean
### Hanja

溯 • (so, sak) (hangeul 소, 삭, revised so, sak, McCune–Reischauer so, sak, Yale so, sak)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

溯: Hán Nôm readings: tố
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#### References

* Nom Foundation