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緒

緒

See also: 緖 and 绪

Translingual

Han character

緒 (radical 120 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火十大日 (VFJKA), four-corner 24960, composition ⿰糹者)

  1. end of thread
  2. thread

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 929, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27632
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3408, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+7DD2

Chinese

trad. 緒/緖
simp. 绪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (者) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觰 *rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸 *tjaː, *tja
者 *tjaːʔ
堵 *tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭 *tjaːʔ
撦 *l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯 *tʰjaːʔ
闍 *djaː, *taː
奢 *hljaː
鍺 *toːlʔ
都 *taː
醏 *taː
覩 *taːʔ
睹 *taːʔ
暏 *taːʔ
賭 *taːʔ
帾 *taːʔ
楮 *taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠 *daː, *da
瘏 *daː
廜 *daː
鷵 *daː
緒 *ljaʔ
豬 *ta
猪 *ta
瀦 *ta
藸 *ta, *da
櫫 *ta
褚 *taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著 *taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸 *tas, *das
儲 *da
躇 *da
櫧 *tja
藷 *tja, *djas
蠩 *tja
煮 *tjaʔ
渚 *tjaʔ
煑 *tjaʔ
陼 *tjaʔ
翥 *tjas
署 *djas
薯 *djas
曙 *djas
書 *hlja
暑 *hjaʔ
鐯 *taɡ
擆 *taɡ
櫡 *taɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljaʔ) : semantic 糹 + phonetic 者 ‎(OC *tjaːʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 緒
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 緒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zjoX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-m-taʔ/
English arrange in order

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 緒
Reading # 1/1
No. 16982
Phonetic
component		 者
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*ljaʔ/

Noun

緒

  1. beginning
    緒言 / 绪言  ―  xùyán  ―  preface
    緒論 / 绪论  ―  xùlùn  ―  introduction
  2. mental state
    情緒 / 情绪  ―  qíngxù  ―  mood
  3. clue
    端緒 / 端绪  ―  duānxù  ―  thread

Japanese

Kanji

緒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

緒 • ‎(seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

緒 (tự)

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