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Translingual
Han character
敘 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人木人大 (ODOK), four-corner 88940, composition ⿰余攵)
Derived characters
Related characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 472, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13206
- Dae Jaweon: page 821, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1463, character 3
- Unihan data for U+6558
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 斜
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*lja, *laː
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| 茶
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*rlaː
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| 荼
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*rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'aː
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| 梌
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*rlaː, *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
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| 搽
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*rlaː
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| 塗
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*rlaː, *l'aː
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| 佘
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*ɦlja
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| 賒
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*hljaː
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| 畬
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*hljaː, *la
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| 舍
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*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
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| 捨
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*hljaːʔ
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| 騇
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*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
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| 涻
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*hljaːs
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| 稌
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*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰaːʔ
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| 悇
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*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰas, *las
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| 庩
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*l̥ʰaː
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| 捈
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*l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
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| 途
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*l'aː
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| 酴
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*l'aː
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| 駼
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*l'aː
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| 鵌
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*l'aː, *la
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| 涂
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*l'aː, *l'a
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| 嵞
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*l'aː
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| 峹
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*l'aː
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| 筡
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*l'aː, *l̥ʰa
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| 蒤
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*l'aː
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| 徐
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*lja
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| 俆
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*lja
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| 敘
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*ljaʔ
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| 漵
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*ljaʔ
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| 除
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*l'a, *l'as
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| 篨
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*rla
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| 滁
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*rla
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| 蒢
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*rla
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| 蜍
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*ɦlja, *la
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| 鵨
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*hljaː
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| 瑹
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*hlja
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| 余
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*la
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| 餘
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*la
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| 艅
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*la
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| 狳
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*la
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| 雓
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*la
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| 悆
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*las
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljaʔ) : phonetic 余 (OC *la) + semantic 攵.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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敘
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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xù
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ zjoX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*s-m-taʔ/
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| English
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order (v.)
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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敘
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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15784
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Phonetic
component
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余
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Rime
group
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魚
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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Old
Chinese
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/*ljaʔ/
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| Notes
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說文作敍通作敘
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Definitions
敘
- to talk; to chat
- to narrate; to recount; to relate
- to assess; to appraise
- Short for 敘利亞／叙利亚 (Xùlìyà, “Syria”).
- (literary) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “order; sequence”)
- (literary) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “to order; to arrange in order”)
- (literary) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “preface”)
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
敘
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
- Alternative form of 敍.
Readings
Korean
Hanja
敘 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)
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Vietnamese
Han character
敘: Hán Nôm readings: tự
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