敘

See also: 叙 and 敍

敘 U+6558, 敘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6558 ← 敗 [U+6557] CJK Unified Ideographs 教 → [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

	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

Characters in the same phonetic series (余) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

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

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
Baxter	zjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ziɔX/
Wang Li	/zĭoX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi6

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.

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xù (xu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): zeoi⁶

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): dui⁵

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): si

  (Hailu, HRS): si^ˇ

  (Meixian, Guangdong): xi⁴

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sy⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sǐr / sū / sī

  (Teochew, Peng'im): su⁶

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zhiu

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• 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/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: dui⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tui³²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: si
    • Hakka Romanization System: xi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /si⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: si^ˇ
    • Sinological IPA: /si¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: xi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /si⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sy⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sṳ̄
    • 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/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zhiu
    • MiniDict: zhiu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³xxy
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ʑy²³/

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• Middle Chinese: zjoX

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-m-taʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljaʔ/

Definitions

敘

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

Compounds

• 他敘式 / 他叙式
• 倒敘 / 倒叙 (dàoxù)
• 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 (píngpūzhíxù)
• 惇敘 / 惇叙
• 插敘 / 插叙 (chāxù)
• 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 (xùshìshī)
• 敘傳 / 叙传
• 敘別 / 叙别 (xùbié)
• 敘功 / 叙功
• 敘勛 / 叙勋
• 敘家常 / 叙家常
• 敘州 / 叙州 (Xùzhōu)
• 敘文 / 叙文 (xùwén)
• 敘明 / 叙明
• 敘獎 / 叙奖
• 敘用 / 叙用
• 敘禮 / 叙礼 (xùlǐ)
• 敘舊 / 叙旧 (xùjiù)
• 敘言 / 叙言 (xùyán)
• 敘話 / 叙话
• 敘說 / 叙说 (xùshuō)
• 敘論 / 叙论
• 敘談 / 叙谈 (xùtán)
• 敘述 / 叙述 (xùshù)
• 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 (quánxù)
• 鋪敘 / 铺叙
• 閒敘 / 闲叙
• 順敘 / 顺叙

References

• “敘”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 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)

1. 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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