序

Translingual

Han character

序 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈弓戈弓 (ININ), four-corner 0022₂, composition ⿸广予)

Derived characters

• 垿, 𡜾, 𢭸, 𨹘, 𫸉, 𦯅

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 343, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9253
• Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 875, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5E8F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		序

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
野	*laːʔ, *ɦljaʔ
壄	*laːʔ
序	*ljaʔ
抒	*ljaʔ, *hlja, *ɦljaʔ
芧	*l'aʔ
杼	*l'aʔ, *ɦljaʔ
墅	*ɦljaːʔ
舒	*hlja
紓	*hlja, *ɦljaʔ
妤	*la
伃	*la
予	*la, *laʔ
預	*las
忬	*las
豫	*las
蕷	*las
澦	*las

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljaʔ) : semantic 广 + phonetic 予 (OC *la, *laʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xù (xu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sǐr / sū / sī

  (Teochew, Peng'im): su⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syù
    • Wade–Giles: hsü⁴
    • Yale: syù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuh
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zeoi⁶
    • Yale: jeuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sǐr
    • Tâi-lô: sǐr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sū
    • Tâi-lô: sū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: su
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
    • Tâi-lô: sī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: si
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /si³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /si²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: su⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sŭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su³⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 序
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕy⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ɕy⁵³/
	Tianjin	/ɕy⁵³/
	Jinan	/ɕy²¹/
	Qingdao	/sy⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/sy³¹²/
	Xi'an	/ɕy⁴⁴/
	Xining	/ɕy²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/ɕy¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕy¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕy²¹³/
	Wuhan	/ɕy³⁵/
	Chengdu	/ɕy¹³/
	Guiyang	/ɕi²¹³/
	Kunming	/ɕi²¹²/
	Nanjing	/sy⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/sz̩ʷ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕy⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/ɕy³⁵/
	Hohhot	/ɕy⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ʑy²³/
	Suzhou	/zi³¹/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zz̩ʷ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/zz̩³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰy²²/
	Tunxi	/ɕy²⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/si⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ɕy⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕy²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/si⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/si⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡søy²²/
	Nanning	/t͡sy²²/
	Hong Kong	/t͡søy²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/su²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/søy²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/sy⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/su³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/si³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: zjoX

Rime
Character	序
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	徐吕切
Baxter	zjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ziɔX/
Wang Li	/zĭoX/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[sə.l]aʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	序
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xù
Middle Chinese	‹ zjoX ›
Old Chinese	/*[sə.l]aʔ/
English	walls at side of palace
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	序
Reading #	1/1
No.	15724
Phonetic component	予
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ljaʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 序

1. order; sequence
2. preface (of a book); foreword

   Template:zh-ant

3. introductory
4. (archaic) school

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Japanese

Kanji

序

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. preface

Readings

• Go-on: じょ (jo, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: ついで (tsuide, 序で); のべる (noberu)

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Korean

Hanja

序 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 序 (tựa, tự)

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