書

Unicode name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66F8
Unicode block	CJK Unified Ideographs
Codepoint	U+66F8

See also: 书

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 聿 + phonetic 者

Han character

書 (radical 73 曰+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中土日 (LGA), four-corner 5060₁, composition ⿱聿日)

References

• KangXi: page 502, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14294
• Dae Jaweon: page 874, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1509, character 9
• Unihan data for U+66F8

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Chinese

		-
trad.		書
simp.		书

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): sû
• Min Dong (BUC): cṳ̆
• Min Nan (POJ): chu / su
• Wu (WT Romanisation): sr (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: shu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu¹
    • Yale: syū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy¹
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sû
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /su²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cṳ̆
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sy⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu / su
    • Tâi-lô: tsu / su
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁴⁴/, /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su³⁴/, /su³⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: sr (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (書, reconstructed)
Character (書), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 書 (26) Final: 魚 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 傷魚切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɕɨʌ/	/ɕi̯wo/	/ɕiɔ/	/ɕiɔ/	/ɕɨə̆/	/ɕĭo/	/ɕiɔ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (書, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
書								shū								‹ syo ›								/*s-ta/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
書					17013					者					魚					0					書					/*hlja/

Noun

書 (classifier 本, 冊／册, 部)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) a book, a codex
2. a collection of bamboo or wooden slips, the traditional form of records in China
3. a letter, a document
4. style of calligraphy, script, font
5. Chinese characters
6. the form of a written or printed Chinese character, script, font
7. the art of calligraphy
8. an ancient government post in charge of secretarial duties
9. an imperial edict
10. storytelling
11. the Classic of History, originally known simply as 書

Verb

書

1. (classical, literary) to write

Proper noun

書

1. (abbreviation of 書經／书经), the Classic of History

Compounds

Derived terms

• 圖書館

• 書亭

• 書信

• 書僮

• 書冊

• 書函

• 書刊

• 書包

• 書卷

• 書卷氣

• 書名

• 書名號

• 書吏

• 書呆子

• 書報

• 書場

• 書塾

• 書壇

• 書套

• 書家

• 書寫

• 書局

• 書屋

• 書展

• 書市

• 書店

• 書庫

• 書心

• 書房

• 書扉

• 書攤, 書攤兒

• 書會

• 書本, 書本兒

• 書架

• 書格子

• 書桌, 書桌兒

• 書櫃

• 書櫥

• 書歸正傳

• 書殼

• 書法

• 書物

• 書生

• 書生氣

• 書畫

• 書癡

• 書皮, 書皮兒

• 書目

• 書眉

• 書社

• 書稿

• 書箱

• 書簡, 書柬

• 書籍

• 書籤, 書籤兒

• 書背

• 書脊

• 書舖

• 書茶館兒

• 書號, 書號兒

• 書蟲

• 書蠹

• 書記

• 書評

• 書迷

• 書錄

• 書院

• 書面

• 書面語

• 書頁

• 書香

• 書體

• 書齋

References

• "書" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-24.

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Japanese

Kanji

書

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょ (sho)
• Kun: かく (書く, kaku), がき (gaki)

Compounds

書順 (かきじゅん, kakijun) 書物 (しょもつ, shomotsu) 書初 (かきぞめ, kakizome) 書院 (しょいん, shoin) 書家 (しょか, shoka) 書架 (しょか, shoka) 書画 (しょが, shoga) 書簡 (しょかん, shokan) 書記 (しょき, shoki) 書式 (しょしき, shoshiki) 書写 (しょしゃ, shosha) 書籍 (しょせき, shoseki) 書体 (しょたい, shotai) 書道 (しょどう, shodō)

書法 (しょほう, shohō) 書面 (しょめん, shomen) 書物 (しょもつ, shomotsu) 書類 (しょるい, shorui) 書棚 (しょだな, shodana) 楷書 (かいしょ, kaisho) 教科書 (きょうかしょ, kyōkasho) 行書 (ぎょうしょ, gyōsho) 原書 (げんしょ, gensho) 辞書, 辭書 (じしょ, jisho) 新書 (しんしょ, shinsho) 聖書 (せいしょ, seisho) 清書 (せいしょ, seisho) 誓書 (せいしょ, seisho)

正書法 (せいしょほう, seishohō) 草書 (そうしょ, sōsho) 叢書 (そうしょ, sōsho) 縦書 (たてがき, tategaki) 読書 (どくしょ, dokusho) 図書 (としょ, tosho) 図書館, 圖書館 (としょかん, toshokan) 葉書 (はがき, hagaki) 秘書 (ひしょ, hisho) 文書 (ぶんしょ, bunsho) 洋書 (ようしょ, yōsho) 横書 (よこがき, yokogaki) 落書 (らくがき, rakugaki) 和書 (わしょ, washo)

Suffix

書 (hiragana しょ, romaji -sho)

1. document

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Korean

Hanja

書 (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Compounds

• 書店 (서점, seojeom)

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Vietnamese

Han character

書 (thư)

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