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序

序

Translingual

Han character

序 (radical 53 广+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈弓戈弓 (ININ), four-corner 00222, composition ⿸广予)

References

  • KangXi: page 343, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9253
  • Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 875, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+5E8F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 序

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (予) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
野 *laːʔ, *ɦljaʔ
壄 *laːʔ
序 *ljaʔ
抒 *ljaʔ, *hlja, *ɦljaʔ
芧 *l'aʔ
杼 *l'aʔ, *ɦljaʔ
墅 *ɦljaːʔ
舒 *hlja
紓 *hlja, *ɦljaʔ
妤 *la
伃 *la
予 *la, *laʔ
預 *las
忬 *las
豫 *las
蕷 *las
澦 *las

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljaʔ) : semantic 广 + phonetic 予 ‎(OC *la, *laʔ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 序
Mandarin Beijing /ɕy⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕy⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕy⁵³/
Jinan /ɕy²¹/
Qingdao /sy⁴²/
Zhengzhou /sy³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕy⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕy²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕy¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕy¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕy²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕy³⁵/
Chengdu /ɕy¹³/
Guiyang /ɕi²¹³/
Kunming /ɕi²¹²/
Nanjing /sy⁴⁴/
Hefei /sz̩ʷ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕy⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕy³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕy⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ʑy²³/
Suzhou /zi³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷ¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰy²²/
Tunxi /ɕy²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /si⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɕy⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ɕy²¹/
Hakka Meixian /si⁵³/
Taoyuan /si⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡søy²²/
Nanning /t͡sy²²/
Hong Kong /t͡søy²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /su²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /søy²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sy⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /su³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /si³⁵/
Rime
Character 序
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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /zɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ziɔX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ziɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zɨə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ziɔX/
Wang
Li		 /zĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /zi̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 序
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zjoX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[sə.l]aʔ/
English walls at side of palace

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 序
Reading # 1/1
No. 15724
Phonetic
component		 予
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*ljaʔ/

Definitions

序

  1. order; sequence
  2. preface (of a book); foreword
  3. introductory

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

序

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. preface

Readings

Korean

Hanja

序 • ‎(seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

序 (tựa, tự)

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