尿

suī / niào
noun #1,535

Meanings

  1. 1 urine

Characters

Examples

Zài yīxiē běifāng fāngyán lǐ, pángguāng jiào suīpāo.
In some northern dialects "bladder" is called suīpāo, written with this suī reading.
Lǎotóu shuō yào qù sā pāo suī.
The old man said he wanted to go take a leak.

Tips

register
Colloquial / dialectal reading. Survives in northern speech and in fixed words like 尿泡 and 尿脬 (bladder). For all standard medical and everyday vocabulary, use 尿 instead.

Components

radical
shī
corpse; body (radical form)
Top-left body radical — originally pictured a person crouched. Sets the bodily-discharge frame shared by (feces), (fart) and (tail).
semantic
shuǐ
water
Inner — pictograph of flowing water. With the body radical above, this is one of the most starkly literal compound ideographs in the script: a body releasing water = urine. No phonetic component; both pieces are pure meaning.

Stroke Order

尿 suī