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敘

敘

See also: 叙 and 敍

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. express, state, relate, narrate

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 472, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13206
  • Dae Jaweon: page 821, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1463, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6558

Chinese

trad. 敘
simp. 叙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 敘
Oracle bone script Bamboo and silk script Small seal script

Pronunciation

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
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 敘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zjoX ›
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.

Definitions

敘

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Compounds

  • 他敘式／他叙式
  • 倒敘／倒叙
  • 共敘舊姻／共叙旧姻
  • 套敘／套叙
  • 容敘／容叙
  • 少敘／少叙
  • 平鋪直敘／平铺直叙
  • 惇敘／惇叙
  • 插敘／插叙
  • 敘事／叙事 (xùshì)
  • 敘事句／叙事句
  • 敘事文／叙事文
  • 敘事曲／叙事曲
  • 敘事詩／叙事诗
  • 敘傳／叙传
  • 敘別／叙别 (xùbié)
  • 敘述句／叙述句
  • 敘錄／叙录
  • 敘闊／叙阔
  • 暢敘／畅叙 (chàngxù)
  • 泣笑敘闊／泣笑叙阔
  • 秩敘／秩叙
  • 自敘帖／自叙帖
  • 記敘／记叙 (jìxù)
  • 記敘文／记叙文 (jìxùwén)
  • 議敘／议叙
  • 追敘／追叙 (zhuīxù)
  • 銓敘／铨叙
  • 鋪敘／铺叙
  • 閒敘／闲叙
  • 順敘／顺叙

Japanese

Kanji

敘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

敘 (tự)

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