suō
verb #23,778

Meanings

  1. 1 to instigate
  2. 2 to incite
  3. 3 to egg someone on

Examples

Shì shuí suō tā qù zuò zhèzhǒng shì de?
Who instigated him to do such a thing?
Tā suōshǐ dìdi qù tōu táng.
He egged his younger brother on to steal candy.

Tips

usage
is mostly used in its compound forms: 唆使 (to instigate), 教唆 (to instigate/abet). Used alone it is more colloquial.

Components

radical
kǒu
mouth
(the mouth radical) marks as a verbal action — instigation works through speech, whispered urging or open egging-on. It groups with other mouth-action chars like (shout), (spurt), (quarrel) in the speech-and-noise family.
phonetic
qūn
to retreat; hesitate
supplies the sound, drifted from qūn to suō. The same phonetic stem feeds (jùn, handsome), (jùn, steep) and (jùn, fine horse) — the j-/q- and s- branches of this family run side by side.

Stroke Order

suō