漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遡: go upstream, retrace the past
N1 (our estimate)13 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
辶 carries the meaning · 朔 is drawn in
14 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
ソso · on'yomi · in compounds
- 遡及そきゅうretroactivity; retroaction
サクsaku · on'yomi
- 遡源さくげんgoing to the source; tracing to the origin
さかのぼるsakanoboru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 遡るさかのぼるto go upstream; to go up (a river)
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side遡 go upstream · 辶
vs塑 model · 土In ChineseSimplified 溯 · traditional, as in Japanese · sù
Japan keeps the traditional form 遡; mainland China simplifies it to 溯.
- Simplified
- 溯 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 遡 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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