杸

Translingual

Han character

杸 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木竹弓水 (DHNE), four-corner 4794₇, composition ⿰木殳)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 514, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14507
• Dae Jaweon: page 901, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1174, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6778

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		杸

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
吺	*toː
祋	*toːd, *toːds
投	*doː
骰	*doː, *srɯɡ
酘	*doːs
坄	*doː, *leɡ
殳	*djo
杸	*djo

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shu
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹
    • Yale: shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: syu⁴
    • Yale: syùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyu

Rime
Character	杸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	市朱切
Baxter	dzyu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑio/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑuə̆/
Li Rong	/ʑio/
Wang Li	/ʑĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djo/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	杸
Reading #	1/1
No.	11722
Phonetic component	殳
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	殊
Old Chinese	/*djo/
Notes	殳轉註字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 杸

1. to kill
2. a spear