戍

See also: 戊 and 戌

戍 U+620D, 戍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-620D ← 戌 [U+620C] CJK Unified Ideographs 戎 → [U+620E]

Translingual

Han character

戍 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹戈 (IHI), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿵戊丶 or ⿹戈人(GHT))

1. defend borders, guard frontiers

Derived characters

• 蔑, 幾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 411, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11537
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1398, character 3
• Unihan data for U+620D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		戍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戍
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 人 (“man”) + 戈 (“spear”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shù (shu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shù
    • Wade–Giles: shu⁴
    • Yale: shù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: syu³
    • Yale: syu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sù
    • Tâi-lô: sù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /su¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: syuH

Rime
Character	戍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	傷遇切
Baxter	syuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕioH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕuə̆H/
Li Rong	/ɕioH/
Wang Li	/ɕĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[n̥]o-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljos/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	戍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shù
Middle Chinese	‹ syuH ›
Old Chinese	/*[n̥]o-s/
English	guard (v.)
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	戍
Reading #	1/1
No.	11859
Phonetic component	戍
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	戍
Old Chinese	/*hljos/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 戍

1. garrison

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Japanese

Kanji

戍

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sword

Readings

• On (unclassified): じゅ (ju)、しゅ (shu)
• Kun: まもる (mamoru, 戍る)
• Nanori: まもる (mamoru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

戍: Hán Việt readings: thú
戍: Nôm readings: thú

1. chữ Hán form of thú (“border defense, border garrison”).