畬

See also: 畭 and 畲

畬 U+756C, 畬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-756C ← 畫 [U+756B] CJK Unified Ideographs 畭 → [U+756D]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 𤰩

Han character

畬 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人一木田 (OMDW), four-corner 6809₄, composition ⿱余田)

1. reclaimed field

Derived characters

• 𰊮, 𭲥, 𱜍, 𦼞

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 763, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21860
• Dae Jaweon: page 1173, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2543, character 2
• Unihan data for U+756C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 畬
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
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

Etymology 1

trad.		畬
simp. #		畬
alternative forms		畲 畭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): yi²
• Eastern Min (BUC): ṳ̀
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): û

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Yale: yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴
    • Yale: yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yi²
    • Sinological IPA: /i¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: û
    • Tâi-lô: û
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uu
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /u²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /u²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: yo

Rime
Character	畬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以諸切
Baxter	yo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/iɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨə̆/
Li Rong	/iɔ/
Wang Li	/jĭo/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*la/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	畬
Reading #	2/2
No.	15797
Phonetic component	余
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	余
Old Chinese	/*la/

Definitions

畬

1. (literary) land that has been reclaimed and cultivated for two or three years

Etymology 2

trad.		畬
simp. #		畬
alternative forms		畲 畭 輋／𪨶

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shē (she¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ce⁴
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): qia²
• Eastern Min (BUC): siă
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sia¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siâ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shē
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: she
    • Wade–Giles: shê¹
    • Yale: shē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: she
    • Palladius: шэ (šɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ce⁴
    • Yale: chèh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tse⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cé⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: qia²
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡ɕʰia¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siă
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sia⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sia¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sia
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬia⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sia¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬia⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâ
    • Tâi-lô: siâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaa
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sia²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sia²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sia¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sia²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sia²³/

Definitions

畬

1. (literary) to slash and burn
2. (literary) slash-and-burn farmland, now mostly used in place names.

Compounds

• 茶畬

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 畬 – see 畲 (“She people”). (This character is a variant form of 畲).

References

• “畬”, 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–
• William Campbell (1913), A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, pages 611, 804.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “畬”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 207.

Japanese

Kanji

畬

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

From Middle Chinese 畬 (MC yo):

• Go-on: よ (yo)
• Kan-on: よ (yo)
• Kun: あらた (arata, 畬)

From Mandarin 畬 (shē):

• Kan’yō-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kun: やきた (yakita, 畬)