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帚

帚

See also: 菷

Translingual

In modern form, top now resembles 聿 ‎(“hand”), 肀 ‎(“brush”), 彐, and overall graphically decomposes roughly as 肀 + 冖 + 巾.

Han character

帚 (radical 50 巾+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸一月中月 (SMBLB), four-corner 17227, composition ⿳彐冖巾)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 330, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8854
  • Dae Jaweon: page 635, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 735, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5E1A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 帚

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 帚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之九切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuwX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiuX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 帚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhǒu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t.p]əʔ/
English broom

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 帚
Reading # 1/1
No. 17551
Phonetic
component		 帚
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 帚
Old
Chinese		 /*pjuʔ/

Definitions

帚

  1. broom, broomstick

Japanese

Kanji

帚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. broom

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
帚
ほうき
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Alteration of hahaki.[1]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

帚 ‎(hiragana ほうき, romaji hōki, historical hiragana はうき)

  1. broom
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
帚
ははき
Hyōgaiji
Irregular

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • IPA(key): [ha̠ha̠kʲi]

Alternative forms

Noun

帚 ‎(hiragana ははき, romaji hahaki)

  1. broom
Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

帚 • ‎(chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u)

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Okinawan

Kanji

帚

Etymology

Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as はうち ‎(hauchi).[1] Cognate with mainland Japanese 帚 ‎(hōki).

Alternative forms

Noun

帚 ‎(hiragana ほーち, romaji hōchi)

  1. broom

References

  1. ↑ 1896: 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”). In Japanese. http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/992016/79
  • 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawago Jiten, “Okinawan Dictionary”), 1963

Vietnamese

Han character

帚 (chổi, trửu)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 帚
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (帚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
婦 *bɯʔ
帚 *pjuʔ
箒 *pjuʔ
鯞 *pjuʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a broom with bristles on top and tied handle on the bottom.

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