泅

泅 U+6CC5, 泅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CC5 ← 泄 [U+6CC4] CJK Unified Ideographs 泆 → [U+6CC6]

Translingual

Han character

泅 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水田人 (EWO), four-corner 3610₀, composition ⿰氵囚)

Derived characters

• 𦰪

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 615, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17270
• Dae Jaweon: page 1009, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1587, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6CC5

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (囚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鮂	*ʔslu, *lju
囚	*lju
泅	*lju
苬	*lju

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lju) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 囚 (OC *lju).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		泅
alternative forms		汓 仇 Hokkien

Possibly a dialectal variant of 游 (OC *lu, “to swim”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiú (qiu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhiù

  (Meixian, Guangdong): qiu²

• Eastern Min (BUC): siù
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siû / chhiû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cióu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiu²
    • Yale: chyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyou
    • Palladius: цю (cju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cau⁴
    • Yale: chàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiù
    • Hakka Romanization System: qiu^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qiu²
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰi̯u¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: qiu²
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰiu¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siù
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sieu⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siû
    • Tâi-lô: siû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siuu
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siu¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /siu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu²³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiû
    • Tâi-lô: tshiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiuu
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiu¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiu²⁴/

Note:

• siû - literary;
• chhiû - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: siu⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siû
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siu⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: zjuw

Rime
Character	泅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似尤切
Baxter	zjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ziu/
Shao Rongfen	/ziəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zuw/
Li Rong	/ziu/
Wang Li	/zĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s-N].ru/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lju/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	泅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiú
Middle Chinese	‹ zjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[s-N].ru/
English	swim
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	泅
Reading #	1/1
No.	10555
Phonetic component	囚
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*lju/

Definitions

泅

1. to swim; to float; to wade

Compounds

• 四跤仔泅
• 徛泅
• 拍滂泅
• 掠篙泅
• 水雞泅 / 水鸡泅
• 沐沐泅
• 泅水 (qiúshuǐ)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		泅

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōu (you¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: you
    • Wade–Giles: yu¹
    • Yale: yōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iou
    • Palladius: ю (ju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

泅

1. Alternative form of 攸 (yōu, “(of water) flowing”)

Further reading

• “Entry #4274”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji

泅

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅう (shū)
• Kun: およぐ (oyogu)

Korean

Hanja

泅 (eum 쉬 (swi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

泅: Hán Nôm readings: tù

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