谡 (sù): (classical) to rise; to get up

Meanings

1 (classical) to rise; to get up
2 (in 谡谡) tall and upright; the soughing of wind in pines

Characters

谡

sù

to rise; upright (in 谡谡)

Examples

马谡失了街亭，诸葛亮挥泪斩了他。

Mǎ Sù shī le Jiētíng, Zhūgě Liàng huīlèi zhǎn le tā.

Ma Su lost Jieting, and Zhuge Liang executed him in tears.

Tips

history

Not used as a free word in modern Chinese. It survives in the literary reduplication 谡谡 (tall and upright, or wind soughing through pines) and as the given name of the Three Kingdoms general 马谡.

register

Classical and onomastic only — found in old prose, set reduplications, and historical names, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical

讠 yán

speech; words

The speech radical 讠 is the left-side form of 言; it is the indexing radical here, though the modern sense is 'to rise' rather than speech.

phonetic

畟 cè

phonetic element

The right side is the phonetic; its reading has drifted well away to sù, a common kind of sound drift in rare phono-semantic characters.

Stroke Order

谡 sù

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