suī

walk slowly

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Depicts a foot pointing downwards. Upside-down version of .

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰrulʔ
sul
tilʔ

說文解字

《說文》:“夊,行遲曳夊夊,象人兩脛有所躧也。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica