殳

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogram (指事) – a hand holding a tool, hence activity.

Also Simplified from 𠬛 in some compounds, as in 没.

Han character

殳 (radical 79 殳+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓水 (HNE), X竹弓水 (XHNE), four-corner 7740₇, composition ⿱几又)

1. long pole (as an old weapon)
2. windy-again radical (no. 79)

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/殳
• 没 役 股 設 般 癹

References

• KangXi: page 584, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16613
• Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2155, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6BB3

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		殳

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): shû
• Min Nan (POJ): sû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: shu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu⁴
    • Yale: syùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyː²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: shû
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /shu²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
    • Tâi-lô: sû
    • IPA (Taipei): /su²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (殳, reconstructed)
Character (殳), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 市朱切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑɨo/	/ʑi̯u/	/ʑio/	/d͡ʑio/	/d͡ʑuə̆/	/ʑĭu/	/d͡ʑio/

Old Chinese pronunciation (殳, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
殳								shū								‹ dzyu ›								/*[d]o/								a kind of lance
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
殳					11721					殳					侯					0					殊					/*djo/

References

• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

殳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. pike
2. windy-again radical (no. 79)

Readings

• On: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: ほこ (hoko)

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Korean

Hanja

殳 (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale su)

1. long pole

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Vietnamese

Han character

殳 (thù)

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