帚

See also: 菷

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a broom with bristles on top and tied handle on the bottom.

In modern form, top now resembles 聿 (“hand”), 肀 (“brush”), 彐, and overall graphically decomposes roughly as 肀 + 冖 + 巾.

Han character

帚 (radical 50 巾+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸一月中月 (SMBLB), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿳彐冖巾)

1. broom, broomstick

Derived characters

• 婦 帰 歸 箒 菷 掃

References

• KangXi: page 330, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8854
• Dae Jaweon: page 635, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 735, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5E1A

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		帚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǒu (zhou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaau², zau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chou³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: joou
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaau², zau²
    • Yale: jáau, jáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaau², dzau²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑːu̯³⁵/, /t͡sɐu̯³⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (帚, reconstructed)
Character (帚), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 章 (23) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 之九切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕɨuX/	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯uX/	/t͡ɕiuX/	/t͡ɕiuX/	/cuwX/	/t͡ɕĭəuX/	/t͡ɕiəuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (帚, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
帚								zhǒu								‹ tsyuwX ›								/*[t.p]əʔ/								broom
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
帚					17551					帚					幽					1					帚					/*pjuʔ/

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Japanese

Kanji

帚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そう (sō), しゅう (shū)
• Kun: ほうき (houki)

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Korean

Hanja

帚 (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

帚 (chổi, trửu)

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