遡

See also: 溯

遡 U+9061, 遡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9061 ← 遠 [U+9060] CJK Unified Ideographs 遢 → [U+9062]

Translingual

Han character

遡 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+10, 14 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 13 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜廿山月 (YTUB), composition ⿺辶朔)

1. go upstream
2. trace source
3. formerly

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1263, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39048
• Dae Jaweon: page 1758, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3873, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9061

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (屰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
斥	*ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴	*sŋaːɡs
泝	*sŋaːɡs
愬	*sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ
遡	*sŋaːɡs
塑	*sŋaːɡs
溯	*sŋaːɡs
遻	*ŋaːɡs
柝	*tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚	*ŋaːɡ
諤	*ŋaːɡ
齶	*ŋaːɡ
鍔	*ŋaːɡ
遌	*ŋaːɡ
崿	*ŋaːɡ
偔	*ŋaːɡ
堮	*ŋaːɡ
湂	*ŋaːɡ
鱷	*ŋaːɡ
噩	*ŋaːɡ
咢	*ŋaːɡ
鑩	*ŋaːɡ
鄂	*ŋaːɡ
鰐	*ŋaːɡ
萼	*ŋaːɡ
愕	*ŋaːɡ
顎	*ŋaːɡ
朔	*sŋraːɡ
槊	*sraːwɢ
蒴	*sraːwɢ
坼	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆	*ŋraɡ
屰	*ŋraɡ
縌	*ŋraɡ
蝷	*reːɡ

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 遡 – see 溯 (“to go upstream; to go against a current; to trace back; to recall”). (This character is a variant form of 溯).

Japanese

Kanji

遡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. go upstream
2. retrace the past

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そ (so, Jōyō)
• Kun: さかのぼる (sakanoboru, 遡る, Jōyō)

Korean

Hanja

遡 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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