suì

profound

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
xué, jué cave

A cave is very deep.

Sound component
suì comply with

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsluds

說文解字

《說文》:“邃,深遠也。从穴,遂聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica