溯 — Chinese character
溯
sù
to paddle upstream, to go against the current; to trace the source; formerly
- Pinyin
- sù
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 氵 朔
- Formation
- ideographic — To seek the source 朔 of a river 氵
- Japanese
- 溯 as a kanji
Common words with 溯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 追溯 | zhuī sù | lit. to go upstream; to trace sth back to |
| 溯源 | sù yuán | to investigate the origin of sth; to trace a river upstream back to its source |
| 回溯 | huí sù | to recall; to look back upon |
| 追根溯源 | zhuī gēn sù yuán | to pursue sth back to its origins; to trace back to the source |
| 追本溯源 | zhuī běn sù yuán | to trace sth back to its origin |
| 溯溪 | sù xī | river tracing; mountain stream climbing (recreational activity) |
| 寻根溯源 (尋根溯源) | xún gēn sù yuán | see 追根溯源 (zhuī gēn sù yuán) |
| 推本溯源 | tuī běn sù yuán | to go back to the source |
| 推溯 | tuī sù | to trace back to |
| 逆流溯源 | nì liú sù yuán | to go back to the source |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.