殳

See also: 𠬛 and 及

殳 U+6BB3, 殳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BB3 ← 殲 [U+6BB2] CJK Unified Ideographs 殴 → [U+6BB4]

⽎ U+2F4E, ⽎ KANGXI RADICAL WEAPON ← ⽍ [U+2F4D] Kangxi Radicals ⽏ → [U+2F4F]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

殳 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+0, 4 strokes, Cangjie input 竹弓水 (HNE) or 難竹弓水 (XHNE), four-corner 7740₇, composition ⿱𠘧又(GHT) or ⿱几又(JK))

1. Kangxi radical #79, ⽎.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/殳
• 芟, 癹, 䯴, 疫
• 伇, 吺, 坄, 役, 投, 没, 杸, 殁, 炈, 股, 祋, 砓, 竐, 羖, 般, 設(设), 豛, 䝘, 䟝, 軗(𨐅), 酘, 鈠(𨱁), 䩔, 䬦, 㨌, 骰

Additional Derived Characters

• 𡚾, 𭚧, 𢗎, 𤝈, 𨸜, 𤓶, 𤖬, 𤤄, 𥍟, 𥝻, 𧘣, 𰯯, 𧈻, 𧣇, 𧺢, 𨱚, 𧰵, 𫘈, 𨕵, 𩵤, 𪉘, 𪌓, 𪐮, 𬖫, 𧯸, 𪕂, 𬗿, 𫠙, 𪛒
• 𠚹, 𫽑, 𡧔, 𦤂, 𬯹, 𥰺, 𠨻, 𭙔, 𡇀

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 584, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16613
• Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2155, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6BB3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		殳
alternative forms		杸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 殳
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Pictogram (象形) or Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𠘧 + 又 – a hand holding a tool similar to a hammer, hence activity (with a reference to the act of "beating"). See also 段 and the original version on oracle bones of 鼓.

The whole character was then borrowed phonetically to indicate an ancient halberd made of bamboo.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̀
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sy²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): su⁵

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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/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sy⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sy²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sṳ́
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬy¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sy²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬy²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
    • Tâi-lô: sû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suu
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /su²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /su²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /su¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /su²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: su⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyu

Rime
Character	殳
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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	殳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyu ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]o/
English	a kind of lance
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	殳
Reading #	1/1
No.	11721
Phonetic component	殳
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	殊
Old Chinese	/*djo/

Definitions

殳

1. (historical) shu (an ancient Chinese weapon)

   • 伯也執殳、為王前驅。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     伯也执殳、为王前驱。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bó yě zhí shū, wèi wáng qiánqū. [Pinyin]

     My husband, grasping his halberd, is in the leading chariot of the king's [host].

2. handle of halberd
3. a surname

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 殳 – see 沒 (“not have; there is not; to be without; to be not so ... as; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 沒).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “殳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “殳”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 212.

Japanese

Kanji

殳

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. pike

Readings

• Go-on: ず (zu)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: ほこ (hoko, 殳)、また (mata, 殳)

Korean

Hanja

殳 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale su)

1. long pole

Vietnamese

Han character

殳: Hán Nôm readings: thù

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