敘

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See also: 叙 and 敍
敘 U+6558, 敘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6558
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Translingual

Traditional 敘
Simplified 叙
Japanese 叙
Korean 敍

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

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

trad. 敘/敍
simp. 叙
alternative forms 𪠩
𣁏

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (余) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
斜 *lja, *laː
茶 *rlaː
荼 *rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'aː
梌 *rlaː, *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
搽 *rlaː
塗 *rlaː, *l'aː
佘 *ɦlja
賒 *hljaː
畬 *hljaː, *la
舍 *hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
捨 *hljaːʔ
騇 *hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
涻 *hljaːs
稌 *l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰaːʔ
悇 *l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰas, *las
庩 *l̥ʰaː
捈 *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
途 *l'aː
酴 *l'aː
駼 *l'aː
鵌 *l'aː, *la
涂 *l'aː, *l'a
嵞 *l'aː
峹 *l'aː
筡 *l'aː, *l̥ʰa
蒤 *l'aː
徐 *lja
俆 *lja
敘 *ljaʔ
漵 *ljaʔ
除 *l'a, *l'as
篨 *rla
滁 *rla
蒢 *rla
蜍 *ɦlja, *la
鵨 *hljaː
瑹 *hlja
余 *la
餘 *la
艅 *la
狳 *la
雓 *la
悆 *las

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljaʔ) : phonetic 余 (OC *la) + semantic 攵.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 敘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 徐吕切
Baxter zjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/zɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ziɔX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ziɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/zɨə̆X/
Li
Rong 		/ziɔX/
Wang
Li 		/zĭoX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/zi̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zeoi6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 敘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ zjoX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s-m-taʔ/
English order (v.)

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 敘
Reading # 1/1
No. 15784
Phonetic
component 		余
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*ljaʔ/
Notes 說文作敍通作敘

Definitions

敘

  1. to talk; to chat
  2. to narrate; to recount; to relate
  3. to assess; to appraise
  4. Short for 敘利亞／叙利亚 (Xùlìyà, “Syria”).
  5. (literary) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “order; sequence”)
  6. (literary) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “to order; to arrange in order”)
  7. (literary) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “preface”)

Compounds

References

  • “敘”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “叙”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 269.

Japanese

Kanji

敘

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. Alternative form of 敍.

Readings

  • On (unclassified): じょ (jo)
  • Kun: ついでる (tsuideru)、ついで (tsuide)

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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