殳

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

• Index:Chinese radical/殳
• 没, 役, 股, 設(设), 般, 䝘, 䟝, 殺, 鈠, 䬦, 䩔, 骰, 毅, 𠚹, 癹, 䯴

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		殳

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) : 几 + 又 – a hand holding a tool, hence activity.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sû

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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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
    • Tâi-lô: sû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/

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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/
Bernard 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

(deprecated template usage) 殳

1. shu (an ancient Chinese weapon)
2. handle of halberd
3. a surname

(deprecated template usage)

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.

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Japanese

Kanji

殳

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. pike

Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅ (shu)
• Kun: ほこ (hoko)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. long pole

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 殳 (thù)

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