疋

See also: 匹, 正, and 辵

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (alternative)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 疋
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
疋	*ŋraːʔ, *sŋra, *sŋraʔ
蝑	*sŋas, *sŋa
壻	*sŋeːs
婿	*sŋeːs
胥	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
稰	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
楈	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
諝	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
湑	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
揟	*sŋa
醑	*sŋaʔ
糈	*sŋaʔ, *sŋraʔ
楚	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ, *sŋ̊ʰras
礎	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
憷	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
齼	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
濋	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
儊	*sŋ̊ʰras
綀	*sŋra
疎	*sŋra
疏	*sŋra, *sŋras
蔬	*sŋra
梳	*sŋra

Pictogram (象形) – a foot 止 with a leg/thigh on top.

Han character

疋 (Kangxi radical 103, 疋+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓卜人 (NYO), four-corner 1780₁, composition ⿱乛龰)

1. Kangxi radical #103, ⽦.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/疋
• 楚 旋 蛋

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 767, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21994
• Dae Jaweon: page 1177, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2749, character 1
• Unihan data for U+758B

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Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		疋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): so¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): su

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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: so¹
    • Yale: sō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: so¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: so¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su
    • Tâi-lô: su
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: srjo, srjoX

Rime
Character	疋	疋
Reading #	1/3	2/3
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	所葅切	踈舉切
Baxter	srjo	srjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃɨʌ/	/ʃɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃiɔ/	/ʃiɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃiɔ/	/ʃiɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂɨə̆/	/ʂɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ʃiɔ/	/ʃiɔX/
Wang Li	/ʃĭo/	/ʃĭoX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂi̯wo/	/ʂi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shū	shǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	so1	so2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋraːʔ/, /*sŋra/, /*sŋraʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	疋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ srjo ›
Old Chinese	/*sra/
English	foot
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	疋	疋	疋
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	11763	11793	11794
Phonetic component	疋	疋	疋
Rime group	魚	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	雅		所
Old Chinese	/*ŋraːʔ/	/*sŋra/	/*sŋraʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 疋

1. foot

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 疋 – see 匹 (“to match; to be equal; match; equal; opponent; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 匹).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 疋 – see 雅 (“standard; proper; correct; elegant; graceful; refined; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 雅).

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 疋 – see 正 (“straight; upright in proper position; middle; right; proper; correct; upright; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 正).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02657

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Japanese

Kanji

疋

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. counter for horses, mules, and small animals
2. counter for rolls of cloth
3. a measure of cloth
4. foot (rare)

Readings

• Go-on: げ (ge); しょ (sho); ひち (hichi)
• Kan-on: が (ga); そ (so); ひつ (hitsu)
• Kan’yō-on: ひき (hiki)
• Kun: あし (ashi, 疋)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
疋
ひき Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 疋 (srjo, “foot; roll of cloth”). Conflated in Japanese with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 匹 (phjit, “counter for horses and mules; counter for rolls of cloth”), both in meaning and in reading. The hichi reading evolved into hiki by association with 引き (hiki, “pulling”), from the way that an animal's leash is pulled.

Counter

疋(ひき) or 疋(counter) • (hiki or counter) [[Category:Japanese
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1. Alternative form of 匹: counter for smaller animals

References

• Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
• Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

疋 • (pil, so) (hangeul 필, 소, revised pil, so, McCune–Reischauer p'il, so, Yale phil, so)

1. roll, bolt of cloth
2. foot

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Vietnamese

Han character

疋: Hán Nôm readings: sất, thất, sơ

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