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戍

戍

See also: 戊 and 戌

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. defend borders, guard frontiers

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 戍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戍
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Pronunciation

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
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
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

戍

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Compounds

  • 征戍
  • 徭戍
  • 戍卒
  • 戍守
  • 戍役
  • 戍樓／戍楼
  • 戍衛／戍卫
  • 戍邊／戍边
  • 戍鼓
  • 番戍
  • 衛戍／卫戍
  • 謫戍／谪戍
  • 遣戍

Japanese

Kanji

戍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

戍 (thú)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 戍
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljos) : 人 + 戈 ‎(“spear”).

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