舒

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Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

舒 (Kangxi radical 135, 舌+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人口弓戈弓 (ORNIN), four-corner 87622, composition ⿰舍予)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1007, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30300
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1464, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2943, character 20
  • Unihan data for U+8212

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 舒

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

phonetic 舍 (OC *hljaːʔ, *hljaːs) + phonetic 予 (OC *la, *laʔ)

Etymology

Possibly connected to 紓 (OC *hlja, *ɦljaʔ, “to loosen, relax”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • cṳ̆ - vernacular (“to spread; comfortable”);
  • sṳ̆ - literary.
Note:
  • chhu/chhir/chhi - vernacular (“to spread”);
  • so͘ - vernacular (e.g. 舒爽);
  • su/sir/si - literary (e.g. 舒暢).
Note:
  • ce1 - vernacular (“to spread”);
  • su1 - literary.
Rime
Character 舒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 傷魚切
Baxter syo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɕɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɕiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɕiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɕɨə̆/
Li
Rong 		/ɕiɔ/
Wang
Li 		/ɕĭo/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɕi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		syu1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 舒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ syo ›
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥a/
English slow, easy

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 舒
Reading # 1/1
No. 15730
Phonetic
component 		予
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		書
Old
Chinese 		/*hlja/

Definitions

舒

  1. to open up; to unfold; to stretch out; to relax
  2. (Eastern Min, Puxian Min, Hokkien, Teochew) to spread (a mat, a blanket, etc.)
    舒棉被 [Hokkien]  ―  chhu mî-phōe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to spread a quilt
  3. slow
  4. comfortable; leisurely; easy
  5. a surname
    舒慶春／舒庆春  ―  Shū Qìngchūn  ―  Shu Qingchun (real name of the writer Lao She)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鋪 (“to spread out”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 鋪
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 鋪
Taiwan 鋪
Singapore 鋪
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 鋪
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 鋪
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 鋪, 𢭲
Wuhan 鋪
Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 鋪
Hefei 鋪
Cantonese Guangzhou 鋪
Hong Kong 鋪
Yangjiang 鋪
Gan Nanchang 鋪
Hakka Meixian 鋪
Jin Taiyuan 鋪
Northern Min Jian'ou 鋪
Songxi 鋪
Jianyang 鋪
Eastern Min Fuzhou 鋪, 舒
Gutian 舒
Ningde 舒
Zhouning 舒
Fuding 舒
Southern Min Xiamen 鋪, 舒
Quanzhou 舒
Yongchun 舒
Zhangzhou 舒
Taipei 舒
New Taipei (Sanxia) 舒
Kaohsiung 舒
Yilan 舒
Changhua (Lukang) 舒
Taichung 舒
Tainan 舒
Hsinchu 舒
Kinmen 舒
Penghu (Magong) 舒
Longyan 舒
Datian 擺
Chaozhou 鋪, 舒
Jieyang 舒
Leizhou 鋪
Haikou 鋪
Puxian Min Putian 舒
Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang) 舒
Central Min Yong'an 鋪
Sanming (Shaxian) 鋪
Wu Shanghai 鋪
Suzhou 鋪
Wenzhou 鋪
Xiang Changsha 鋪
Shuangfeng 鋪

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

舒

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: しょ (sho)
  • Kan-on: しょ (sho)
  • Kan’yō-on: じょ (jo)
  • Kun: のべる (noberu, 舒べる)
  • Nanori: のぶ (nobu)

Korean

Hanja

舒 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

舒: Hán Nôm readings: thư[1], thơ[2]

  1. (only in compounds) chữ Hán form of thư (“idle, unoccupied, to relax”).

References

  1. ^ Trần (1999).
  2. ^ Trần (2004).
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