徐

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		徐

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
斜	*lja, *laː
茶	*rlaː
荼	*rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'aː
梌	*rlaː, *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
搽	*rlaː
塗	*rlaː, *l'aː
佘	*ɦlja
賒	*hljaː
畬	*hljaː, *la
舍	*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
捨	*hljaːʔ
騇	*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
涻	*hljaːs
稌	*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰaːʔ
悇	*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰas, *las
庩	*l̥ʰaː
捈	*l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
途	*l'aː
酴	*l'aː
駼	*l'aː
鵌	*l'aː, *la
涂	*l'aː, *l'a
嵞	*l'aː
峹	*l'aː
筡	*l'aː, *l̥ʰa
蒤	*l'aː
徐	*lja
俆	*lja
敘	*ljaʔ
漵	*ljaʔ
除	*l'a, *l'as
篨	*rla
滁	*rla
蒢	*rla
蜍	*ɦlja, *la
鵨	*hljaː
瑹	*hlja
余	*la
餘	*la
艅	*la
狳	*la
雓	*la
悆	*las

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 徐

1. slowly; quietly; calmly
2. composed; poised
3. Xuzhou
4. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

徐

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. slow, gradual

Readings

• Go-on: じょ (jo, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: おもむろ (omomuro); おそい (osoi, 徐い)

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Korean

Hanja

徐 • (seo)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 서 (revised: seo, McCune–Reischauer: sŏ, Yale: se)
  • Name (hangeul): 천천히
    

This means “slow” in English.

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 徐 (chờ, chừa, giờ, từ, thờ, xờ)

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