# 綏

| 綏 | U+7D8F, &#32143; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D8F |
| ← 綎 [U+7D8E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 綐 → [U+7D90] |

## Translingual
### Han character

綏 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女火月女 (VFBV), four-corner 2294$_4$, composition ⿰糹妥)
* soothe, appease, pacify
* carriage harness

#### Derived characters

* 𬧗, 䕑

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 925, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27501
* Dae Jaweon: page 1360, character 25
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3406, character 1
* Unihan data for U+7D8F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 妥 | *n̥ʰoːlʔ |
| 鵎 | *n̥ʰoːlʔ |
| 挼 | *noːl, *snuːl |
| 骽 | *n̥ʰuːlʔ |
| 脮 | *n̥ʰuːlʔ, *nuːlʔ |
| 餒 | *nuːlʔ |
| 浽 | *nuːlʔ, *snul |
| 娞 | *nuːlʔ |
| 鮾 | *nuːlʔ |
| 綏 | *snul |
| 荽 | *snul |
| 鋖 | *snɯl |
| 桵 | *njul |
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *snul) : semantic 糹 (“silk”) + phonetic 妥 (OC *n̥ʰoːlʔ, “to comfort”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): suí, suī
    (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˊ, ㄙㄨㄟ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sui
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: suí
*** Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: suéi
*** Wade–Giles: sui$^2$
*** Yale: swéi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: swei
*** Palladius: суй (suj)
*** Sinological IPA : /su̯eɪ̯³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: suī
*** Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: suei
*** Wade–Giles: sui$^1$
*** Yale: swēi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suei
*** Palladius: суй (suj)
*** Sinological IPA : /su̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: seoi$^1$
*** Yale: sēui
*** Cantonese Pinyin: soey$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sêu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɵy̯⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sui
*** Tâi-lô: sui
*** Phofsit Daibuun: suy
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sui³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sui⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: swij
Rime :
| Character | 綏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (16) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 息遺切 |
| Baxter | swij |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siuɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sʷi/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sjuɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /swi/ |
| Li Rong | /sui/ |
| Wang Li | /swi/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /swi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | suī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | seoi$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.nuj/
    (Zhengzhang): /*snul/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 綏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | suí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ swij › |
| Old Chinese | /*s.nuj/ |
| English | comfort (v.) |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 綏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12596 |
| Phonetic component | 妥 |
| Rime group | 微 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 綏 |
| Old Chinese | /*snul/ |

### Definitions

綏
* (literary) cord held when mounting a carriage
* (literary) to pacify; to placate
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Huì cǐ Zhōngguó, yǐ suí sìfāng. [Pinyin]
    Let us cherish this centre of the kingdom, To secure the repose of the four quarters of it.
* (historical) Short for 綏遠／绥远 (Suíyuǎn, “Suiyuan province”).

#### Compounds

* 交綏／交绥
* 寵綏／宠绥
* 平綏鐵路／平绥铁路
* 惠綏／惠绥
* 撫綏／抚绥 (fǔsuí)
* 歸綏／归绥 (Guīsuí)
* 死綏／死绥
* 福履增綏／福履增绥
* 綏來／绥来 (Suílái)
* 綏定／绥定 (suídìng)
* 綏寧／绥宁 (suíníng)
* 綏撫／绥抚
* 綏服／绥服
* 綏綏／绥绥
* 綏芬河／绥芬河 (Suífēnhé)
* 綏遠／绥远 (Suíyuǎn)
* 綏靖／绥靖 (suíjìng)
* 綏靖主義／绥靖主义 (suíjìng zhǔyì)
* 蔘綏／𦲞绥
* 靖綏／靖绥

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: すい (sui)
* Kan-on: すい (sui)
* On: た (ta)
* Kun: やすい (yasui, 綏い)
* Nanori: たかし (takashi)、やす (yasu)、やすし (yasushi)

## Korean
### Hanja

綏 • (yu, su) (hangeul 유, 수, revised yu, su, McCune–Reischauer yu, su, Yale yu, swu)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

綏: Hán Nôm readings: tuy, nối
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