suī
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary) to stare; to gaze upward
  2. 2 (used in place names) Sui, as in 睢县 Sui County in Henan

Examples

Suī xiàn zài Hénán dōngbù.
Sui County is in the eastern part of Henan.

Tips

history
is not used independently in modern Chinese. Its old verb sense 'to stare / gaze up' survives only in the literary phrase (cruel and willful). Today it is met mostly in place names like and the Sui River.
register
Classical / proper-noun only — seen in old idioms and geography, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
eye
The (eye) radical on the left carries the original meaning: is about staring or gazing upward. Same eye radical as and .
phonetic
zhuī
short-tailed bird
Right side (short-tailed bird) is the sound element, drifting from zhuī to suī. It carries no 'bird' meaning here. The same phonetic also drives and .

Stroke Order

suī