suì

obey

represents the sound and the top two strokes disambiguate from .

Components
八 distinguishing component

  Distinguishing component

  

eight

豕 sound component

  Sound component

shǐ

  

pig

Evolution

㒸 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
㒸 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
㒸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㒸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

suì

(same as U+9042 ) to obey; to comply with; to follow the wishes of another, (an ancient form of U+6B72 ) a year, age, the harvest; archaic variant of [suì]

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (2 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+34B8

Shuowen

“,从意也。从八,豕聲。”


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