帚

See also: 菷

帚	U+5E1A, 帚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E1A

← 帙
[U+5E19]

CJK Unified Ideographs

帛 →
[U+5E1B]

Translingual

Han character

帚 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+5, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 尸一月中月 (SMBLB), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿳𫜹冖巾 or ⿳⺕冖巾)

Derived characters

帰, 埽, 婦, 掃, 㴆, 䢜, 㫶, 㱕, 㷌, 歸, 鯞(𫚡), 菷, 箒, 㝲, 㑴

Additional Derived Characters

𠴵, 𡹙, 𢃞, 𱞨, 𨺜, 𥇳, 𱀠, 𬖥, 𫃲, 𧌈, 𰯳, 𨓼, 𨧪, 𨺔, 𢅨, 𡚖, 𭘺, 𱜹, 𪂋
𢅜, 𡞒, 𱟜, 𫹅, 𪩺, 𢃳, 𢽪, 𢽰, 𲉕, 𢅦, 𪂪
𡨦, 𮫌, 𡪷, 𱷕, 𬤸, 𡎹, 𢱥, 𣹰, 𣖽, 𥛆, 𦃌, 𩤿, 𠖗, 𡩠, 𦵲

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 330, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8854
Dae Jaweon: page 635, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 735, character 10
Unihan data for U+5E1A

Chinese

trad.		帚
simp. ^#		帚
alternative forms		箒／帚菷𦲅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 帚
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (帚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
婦	*bɯʔ
帚	*pjuʔ
箒	*pjuʔ
鯞	*pjuʔ

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.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhǒu (zhou³)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zaau² / zau²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): siu³ / ziu³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiú / chhiú
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tseu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhǒu
  - Wade–Giles: chou³
  - Yale: jǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: joou
  - Palladius: чжоу (čžou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zaau² / zau²
  - Yale: jáau / jáu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzaau² / dzau²
  - Guangdong Romanization: zao² / zeo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːu̯³⁵/, /t͡sɐu̯³⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: siu³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: siû
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: siu³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu³³²/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ciû
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiú
  - Tâi-lô: tsiú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciuo
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siu⁵⁵⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siu⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siu⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiú
  - Tâi-lô: tshiú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiuo
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiu⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiu⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

chiú - literary;
chhiú - vernacular.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵tseu
  - MiniDict: tseu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tseu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɤ³⁴/

Middle Chinese: tsyuwX

Rime
Character	帚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之九切
Baxter	tsyuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiəu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuw^X/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiu^X/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[t.p]əʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*pjuʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	帚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǒu
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[t.p]əʔ/
English	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	帚
Reading #	1/1
No.	17551
Phonetic component	帚
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	帚
Old Chinese	/*pjuʔ/

Definitions

帚

broom; broomstick

Compounds

References

“帚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “帚”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 312.

Japanese

Kanji

帚

(Hyōgai kanji)

broom

Readings

Go-on: す (su)
Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
Kan’yō-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
Kun: ほうき (hōki, 帚)

Compounds

箕帚(きしゅう) (kishū), 箕帚(きそう) (kisō)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

帚

Wikipedia ^ja

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
帚
ほうき Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 帚 – see the following entry.

【箒ほうき】H	[noun] [from 1496] broom
【箒ははき】H	[noun] [807–1400s] broom

(This term, 帚, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
帚
ははき Hyōgai
irregular

For pronunciation and definitions of 帚 – see the following entry.

【箒ほうき】H	[noun] [from 1496] broom
【箒ははき】H	[noun] [807–1400s] broom

(This term, 帚, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

“^▲帚”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

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

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Okinawan

Kanji

帚

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Kun: ほーち (hōchi, 帚)

Noun

帚(ほーち) (hōchi)

alternative form of 箒 (hōchi)

Vietnamese

Han character

帚: Hán Nôm readings: chổi, trửu

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