徐

Translingual

Han character

徐 (radical 60 彳+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹人人一木 (HOOMD), four-corner 2829₄, composition ⿰彳余)

1. slowly, quietly, calmly
2. composed, dignified
3. A surname​.

References

• KangXi: page 367, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10110
• Dae Jaweon: page 690, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 825, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5F90

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		徐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xú (xu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): chhî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xú
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hsü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyu
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕy³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceoi⁴
    • Yale: chèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɵy̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhî
    • Tâi-lô: tshî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chii
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰi¹³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 徐
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕy³⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕy²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕy⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ɕy⁴²/
	Qingdao	/sy⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/sy⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕy²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕy²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕy⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕy⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕy⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕy²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ɕy³¹/
	Guiyang	/ɕi²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕi³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡sʰy²⁴/
	Hefei	/sz̩ʷ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕy¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ɕy¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕy³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ʑi²³/
	Suzhou	/zi¹³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zz̩ʷ²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/zei³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/t͡sʰi⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/si¹³/
	Xiangtan	/ɕy¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰi¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/t͡sʰi¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰøy²¹/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰy²¹/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰøy²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/su³⁵/ /t͡sʰi³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/sy⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡sy²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/si³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /zɨʌ/▼

Rime
Character	徐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似魚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨə̆/
Li Rong	/ziɔ/
Wang Li	/zĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*sə.la/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lja/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	徐
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xú
Middle Chinese	‹ zjo ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.la/
English	walk slowly
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	徐
Reading #	1/1
No.	15782
Phonetic component	余
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	徐
Old Chinese	/*lja/

Definitions

徐

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Japanese

Kanji

徐

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: じょ (jo)
• Kan’on: しょ (sho) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: おもむろ (omomuro)

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Korean

Hanja

徐 • ‎(seo)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 서 (revised: seo, McCune-Reischauer: sŏ, Yale: se)

• Name (hangeul): 천천히()

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Vietnamese

Han character

徐 (chờ, chừa, giờ, từ, thờ, xờ)

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