序

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序 U+5E8F, 序
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E8F
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Translingual

Han character

序 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈弓戈弓 (ININ), four-corner 00222, composition ⿸广予)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 343, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9253
  • Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 875, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+5E8F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 序

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (予) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
野 *laːʔ, *ɦljaʔ
壄 *laːʔ
序 *ljaʔ
抒 *ljaʔ, *hlja, *ɦljaʔ
芧 *l'aʔ
杼 *l'aʔ, *ɦljaʔ
墅 *ɦljaːʔ
舒 *hlja
紓 *hlja, *ɦljaʔ
妤 *la
伃 *la
予 *la, *laʔ
預 *las
忬 *las
豫 *las
蕷 *las
澦 *las

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljaʔ) : semantic 广 + phonetic 予 (OC *la, *laʔ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 序
Mandarin Beijing /ɕy⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕy⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕy⁵³/
Jinan /ɕy²¹/
Qingdao /sy⁴²/
Zhengzhou /sy³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕy⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕy²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕy¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕy¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕy²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕy³⁵/
Chengdu /ɕy¹³/
Guiyang /ɕi²¹³/
Kunming /ɕi²¹²/
Nanjing /sy⁴⁴/
Hefei /sz̩ʷ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕy⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕy³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕy⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ʑy²³/
Suzhou /zi³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷ¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰy²²/
Tunxi /ɕy²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /si⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɕy⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ɕy²¹/
Hakka Meixian /si⁵³/
Taoyuan /si⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡søy²²/
Nanning /t͡sy²²/
Hong Kong /t͡søy²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /su²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /søy²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sy⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /su³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /si³⁵/
Rime
Character 序
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 序
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ zjoX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*aʔ/
English walls at side of palace

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 序
Reading # 1/1
No. 15724
Phonetic
component 		予
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*ljaʔ/
This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!
Particularly: “Dungan”

Definitions

序

  1. order; sequence
  2. preface (of a book); foreword (Classifier: 篇)
    Antonym: 跋 (bá)
  3. introductory
  4. † school

Synonyms

  • (preface):

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “序”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 268.

Japanese

Kanji

序

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. order, sequence
  2. mention, speak
  3. beginning
  4. preface
  5. school
    Synonym: 庠

Readings

Noun

For pronunciation and definitions of 序 – see the following entry.
【学まなび舎や】
school, school building
Alternative spelling
庠
(This term, 序, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 序 (MC zjoX). Recorded as Middle Korean 셔〯 (syě) (Yale: sye) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

序 (eumhun 차례 서 (charye seo))

  1. hanja form? of 서 (“sequence; order”)
  2. hanja form? of 서 (“preface”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

序: Hán Nôm readings: tựa, tự

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