敘

See also: 叙, and 敍

敘	U+6558, 敘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6558

← 敗
[U+6557]

CJK Unified Ideographs

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[U+6559]

Translingual

Traditional	敘
Simplified	叙
Japanese	叙
Korean	敍

Han character

敘 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人木人大 (ODOK), four-corner 8894₀, composition ⿰余攵)

Derived characters

漵

Related characters

敍 (Orthodox form in Kangxi dictionary)
叙 (Simplified form in mainland China, also a Japanese shinjitai)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 472, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13206
Dae Jaweon: page 821, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1463, character 3
Unihan data for U+6558

Chinese

trad.		敘/敍
simp.		叙
alternative forms		𪠩𣁏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 敘
Shang	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljaʔ) : phonetic 余 (OC *la) + semantic 攵.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xù (xu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): si
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sy⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sǐr / sū / sī

(Teochew, Peng'im): su⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xù
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syù
  - Wade–Giles: hsü⁴
  - Yale: syù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuh
  - Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zeoi⁶
  - Yale: jeuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: zêu⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: si
  - Hakka Romanization System: xi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xi⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /si⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sy⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬy²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sǐr
  - Tâi-lô: sǐr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sū
  - Tâi-lô: sū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: su
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /su²²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
  - Tâi-lô: sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: si
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /si²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: su⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sŭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /su³⁵/

Middle Chinese: zjoX

Rime
Character	敘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	徐吕切
Baxter	zjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨʌ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɔ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɔ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨə̆^X/
Li Rong	/ziɔ^X/
Wang Li	/zĭo^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯wo^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-m-taʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*ljaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xù
Middle Chinese	‹ zjo^X ›
Old Chinese	/*s-m-taʔ/
English	order (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	敘
Reading #	1/1
No.	15784
Phonetic component	余
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ljaʔ/
Notes	說文作敍通作敘

Definitions

敘

to talk; to chat
to narrate; to recount; to relate
to assess; to appraise
Short for 敘利亞／叙利亚 (Xùlìyà, “Syria”).
(literary) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “order; sequence”)
(literary) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “to order; to arrange in order”)
(literary) Alternative form of 序 (xù, “preface”)

Compounds

References

“敘”, 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), “叙”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 269.

Japanese

Kanji

敘

(Hyōgai kanji)

Alternative form of 敍.

Readings

On (unclassified): じょ (jo)
Kun: ついでる (tsuideru)、ついで (tsuide)

Korean

Hanja

敘 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

敘: Hán Nôm readings: tự

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