尿

suī / niào
noun #1,535

Meanings

  1. 1 urine

Characters

Examples

HSK 7-9
Zài yīxiē běifāng fāngyán lǐ, pángguāng jiào suīpāo.
In some northern dialects "bladder" is called suīpāo, written with this suī reading.
HSK 7-9
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