手書

Chinese

		hand; convenient; ‑er	book; letter
trad. (手書)		手	書
simp. (手书)		手	书

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǒushū

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄡˇ ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau² syu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shǒushū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄡˇ ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shǒushu
    • Wade–Giles: shou³-shu¹
    • Yale: shǒu-shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shooushu
    • Palladius: шоушу (šoušu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau² syu¹
    • Yale: sáu syū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau² sy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo² xu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: syuwX syo

Rime
Character	手	書
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	書九切	傷魚切
Baxter	syuwX	syo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨuX/	/ɕɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiuX/	/ɕiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiəuX/	/ɕiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕuwX/	/ɕɨə̆/
Li Rong	/ɕiuX/	/ɕiɔ/
Wang Li	/ɕĭəuX/	/ɕĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ə̯uX/	/ɕi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shǒu	shū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sau2	syu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n̥uʔ  s-ta/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hnjɯwʔ  hlja/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	手	書
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shǒu	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ syuwX ›	‹ syo ›
Old Chinese	/*n̥uʔ/	/*s-ta/
English	hand	write
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	手	書
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11665	17013
Phonetic component	手	者
Rime group	幽	魚
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	首	書
Old Chinese	/*hnjɯwʔ/	/*hlja/

Verb

手書

1. (literary) to personally write a letter

Noun

手書

1. (literary) personal letter; correspondence

Synonyms

• 信
• 信件 (xìnjiàn)
• 信函 (xìnhán)
• 信札 (xìnzhá)
• 八行 (bāháng) (literary)
• 八行書／八行书 (bāhángshū) (literary)
• 函件 (hánjiàn)
• 手簡／手简 (shǒujiǎn) (literary)
• 書／书 (shū) (literary, or in compounds)
• 書信／书信 (shūxìn) (formal)
• 書函／书函 (shūhán)
• 書札／书札 (shūzhá) (literary)
• 書牘／书牍 (shūdú) (literary)
• 書簡／书简 (shūjiǎn) (literary)
• 筆札／笔札 (bǐzhá) (literary, figurative)
• 簡／简 (jiǎn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 鴻／鸿 (hóng) (literary, figurative)