敘

See also: 叙 and 敍

Translingual

Japanese	叙
Simplified	叙
Traditional	敘

Han character

敘 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人木人大 (ODOK), four-corner 8894₀, composition ⿰余攵)

Derived characters

• 漵

Related characters

• 敍 (Orthodox form in Kangxi dictionary)
• 叙 (Simplified form in mainland China, also a Japanese shinjitai)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 472, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13206
• Dae Jaweon: page 821, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1463, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6558

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Chinese

trad.		敘/敍
simp.		叙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 敘
Shang	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xù (xu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sǐr / sū / sī

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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: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
    • Tâi-lô: sī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: si
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /si²²/

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• Middle Chinese: zjoX

Rime
Character	敘
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): /*s-m-taʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xù
Middle Chinese	‹ zjoX ›
Old Chinese	/*s-m-taʔ/
English	order (v.)
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	敘
Reading #	1/1
No.	15784
Phonetic component	余
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ljaʔ/
Notes	說文作敍通作敘

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 敘

1. to talk; to chat
2. to narrate; to recount; to relate
3. to assess; to appraise
4. Short for 敘利亞／叙利亚 (Xùlìyà, “Syria”).
5. (literary) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “order; sequence”).
6. (literary) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “to order; to arrange in order”).
7. (literary) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “preface”).

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Japanese

Kanji

敘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 敍.

Readings

• On (unclassified): じょ (jo)
• Kun: ついでる (tsuideru), ついで (tsuide)

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Korean

Hanja

敘 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 敘 (tự)

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