帚

See also: 菷

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 婦 帰 歸 箒 菷 掃

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

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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.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 帚

1. broom; broomstick

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Japanese

Kanji

帚

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. broom

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
• Kan’yō-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: ほうき (hōki, 帚)

Compounds

Compounds

• 箕帚(きしゅう) (kishū), 箕帚(きそう) (kisō)

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.)

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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 (hiragana ほーち, romaji hōchi)

1. Alternative form of 箒 (hōchi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 帚 (chổi, trửu)

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