# 沝

| 沝 | U+6C9D, &#27805; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C9D |
| ← 沜 [U+6C9C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 沞 → [U+6C9E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

沝 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水水 (EE) or 難難水水 (XXEE), four-corner 1223$_0$, composition ⿰水水)

#### Derived characters

* 𠊥, 𣶙, 𢯣, 淼, 𣸞, 㵘, 𤀁, 𣹳, 𣻣, 𨬛

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 612, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17219
* Dae Jaweon: page 1005, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1557, character 1
* Unihan data for U+6C9D

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 沝 | *qʷljilʔ |
| 水 | *qʰʷljilʔ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 水 (“water; river”) + 水 (“water; river”). Compare 淼 (OC *mewʔ) and 㵘.

### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhuǐ (zhui$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄟˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi$^2$ / ceoi$^4$
* Eastern Min (BUC): cūi / cṳ̄
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): chúi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): zui$^2$
    (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): zui$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhuǐ
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄟˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhuěi
*** Wade–Giles: chui$^3$
*** Yale: jwěi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: joei
*** Palladius: чжуй (čžuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zeoi$^2$ / ceoi$^4$
*** Yale: jéui / chèuih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey$^2$ / tsoey$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zêu$^2$ / cêu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɵy̯³⁵/, /t͡sʰɵy̯²¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: cūi / cṳ̄
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sui³³/, /t͡sy³³/
* cūi - literary (common);
* cṳ̄ - vernacular (only used in some words as the first syllable).
* Middle Chinese: tsyweX
Rime :
| Character | 沝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (12) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 之累切 |
| Baxter | tsyweX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕiuᴇ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕʷiɛ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕjuɛ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cwiə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕiue$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕǐwe$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡ɕwie̯$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhuǐ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zeoi$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*turʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʷljilʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 沝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhuǐ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsywij$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*turʔ/ |
| English | water (Min form) |
| 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 | 沝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11947 |
| Phonetic component | 水 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 捶 |
| Old Chinese | /*qʷljilʔ/ |
| Notes | 餘校依說文之壘切集韻之誄切入旨韻 |

#### Definitions

沝
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) two rivers; wide river; confluence of rivers
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 水 (shuǐ, “water; river (especially as a Min word)”)

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zǐ (zi$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗˇ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zǐ
*** Zhuyin: ㄗˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zǐh
*** Wade–Giles: tzŭ$^3$
*** Yale: dž
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyy
*** Palladius: цзы (czy)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sz̩²¹⁴/

#### Definitions

沝
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) place where sandbars or gravelbars merge