戌

Translingual

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) - an axe.

Han character

戌 (radical 62 戈+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一 (IHM), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿵戊一)

1. eleventh of twelve earthly branches (十二支): Dog (狗) of Chinese zodiac

Descendants

• 威, 咸, 歲, 𤇳, 烕

References

• KangXi: page 411, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11535
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1398, character 1
• Unihan data for U+620C

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		戌

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xū (xu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seot¹
• Min Nan (POJ): sut

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
    • Wade-Giles: hsü¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seot¹
    • Yale: sēut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soet⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /sɵt̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sut
    • Tâi-lô: sut
    • IPA (Taipei): /sut̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sut̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (戌, reconstructed)
Character (戌), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 術 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 辛聿切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/siuɪt̚/	/si̯uĕt̚/	/siuĕt̚/	/sʷit̚/	/swit̚/	/sĭuĕt̚/	/sjuet̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (戌, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
戌								xū								‹ swit ›								/*s.mi[t]/								11th earthly branch
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
戌					13945					戌					質					2					卹					/*smid/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典

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Japanese

Kanji

戌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: じゅつ (jutsu)
• Kun: いぬ (inu)

Noun

戌 (hiragana いぬ, romaji inu)

1. the hour of the dog; a historical duel-hour equivalent to 7PM - 9PM
   • c. 935,: Tosa Nikki (page 3)

     それの年の十二月の二十日あまり一日の日の戌の刻に、門出す。

     I departed on the twenty and one day of the twelfth month of that year at the hour of the dog.

References

• 1989, Masaharu Hasegawa; Yūichirō Imanishi, Hiroshi Itō, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 24: Tosa Nikki, Kagerō Nikki, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, Sarashina Nikki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240024-7:

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Korean

Hanja

戌 (sul) (hangeul 술, revised sul, McCune-Reischauer sul, Yale swul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: tuất

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