聿

See also: ⺻ and 肀

聿 U+807F, 聿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-807F ← 聾 [U+807E] CJK Unified Ideographs 肀 → [U+8080]

⾀ U+2F80, ⾀ KANGXI RADICAL BRUSH ← ⽿ [U+2F7F] Kangxi Radicals ⾁ → [U+2F81]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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Radical 129 聿

聿 (Kangxi radical 129, 聿+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中手 (LQ), four-corner 5000₇, composition ⿻肀二 or ⿻𦘒一)

1. Kangxi radical #129, ⾀.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/聿
• 侓, 冿, 㖀, 垏, 峍, 律, 𢘶, 𢫫, 津, 𤝽, 𣑵, 𤈠, 珒, 𦛌, 硉, 𥞰, 𧙻, 𥹧, 䋖, 𦨱, 𧊐, 𧧪, 𧱇, 貄, 𨀞, 銉, 𫽹, 䮇, 𪀴, 𫙟, 建, 䢖
• 𠜈, 𪁀, 𬎾, 䀌, 衋, 𡷏, 茟, 筆, 𩬶, 㡽

See also

• 隶, 唐, 妻
• 書, 㶳, 畫, 畵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 971, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29215
• Dae Jaweon: page 1422, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3166, character 1
• Unihan data for U+807F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		聿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 聿
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

	Old Chinese
筆	*prud
潷	*prud
硉	*ruːd
律	*rud
葎	*b·rud
聿	*b·lud
銉	*lud

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

Pictogram (象形) or ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : hand (又) holding a brush (𰀁). Unrelated to 建, in which the hand is holding a pole. Partly related to 津.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	聿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘律切
Baxter	ywit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/juet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwit̚/
Li Rong	/iuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/jĭuĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wat6

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	聿	聿
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ ywit ›	‹ ywit ›
Old Chinese	/*[N.]rut/	/*[m-]rut/
English	following, thereupon	writing stylus or brush (pron. in Chǔ 楚 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn)
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	聿
Reading #	1/1
No.	15980
Phonetic component	聿
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	聿
Old Chinese	/*b·lud/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ / leot⁶ / wat⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lu̍t
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): u̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyut⁶ / leot⁶ / wat⁶
    • Yale: yuht / leuht / waht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyt⁹ / loet⁹ / wat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yud⁶ / lêd⁶ / wed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːt̚²/, /lɵt̚²/, /wɐt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lu̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: lud
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lud⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /lut̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: u̍t
    • Tâi-lô: u̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ut
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ut̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ut̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ut̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ut̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ut̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: ywit

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[N.]rut/, /*[m-]rut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*b·lud/

Definitions

聿

1. Original form of 筆／笔 (bǐ, “writing brush; pencil”).
2. ^† sentence-initial or sentence-medial introductory particle: then; and then; thereupon
3. (Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to scribble, scrawl, or daub in a hasty and careless way

   作業聿兩字就交去。 [Hokkien, trad.]
   作业聿两字就交去。 [Hokkien, simp.]

   Chok-gia̍p u̍t nňg lī chiū kau khì. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   He submitted his homework after hastily scribbling two words in it.

   掃帚聿一下準拄好。 [Hokkien, trad.]
   扫帚聿一下准拄好。 [Hokkien, simp.]

   Sàu-chhiú u̍t chi̍t-ē chún-tú-hó. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   He carelessly and hastily scrawled the broom a bit just to finish doing it.

4. a surname

Compounds

• 聿皇

 

Japanese

Kanji

聿

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. writing brush, pencil
2. thereupon

Readings

• On (unclassified): いつ (itsu)、いち (ichi)
• Kun: ふで (fude)、ここに (kokoni)
• Nanori: のぶ (nobu)

Korean

Hanja

聿 (eumhun 붓 율 (but yul))

1. hanja form^? of 율 (“writing brush, paint brush”)

Vietnamese

Han character

聿: Hán Nôm readings: duật

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