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徐

徐

Translingual

Han character

徐 (radical 60 彳+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹人人一木 (HOOMD), four-corner 28294, composition ⿰彳余)

  1. slowly, quietly, calmly
  2. composed, dignified
  3. A surname​.

References

  • KangXi: page 367, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10110
  • Dae Jaweon: page 690, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 825, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5F90

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 徐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 徐
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (余) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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
叙 *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

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 徐
Mandarin Beijing /ɕy³⁵/
Harbin /ɕy²⁴/
Tianjin /ɕy⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕy⁴²/
Qingdao /sy⁴²/
Zhengzhou /sy⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕy²⁴/
Xining /ɕy²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕy⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕy⁵³/
Ürümqi /ɕy⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕy²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕy³¹/
Guiyang /ɕi²¹/
Kunming /ɕi³¹/
Nanjing /t͡sʰy²⁴/
Hefei /sz̩ʷ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕy¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕy¹³/
Hohhot /ɕy³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ʑi²³/
Suzhou /zi¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷ²¹³/
Wenzhou /zei³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰi⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /si¹³/
Xiangtan /ɕy¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰi¹¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰi¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰøy²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰy²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰøy²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /su³⁵/
/t͡sʰi³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sy⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sy²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /si³¹/
Rime
Character 徐
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 似魚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /zɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ziɔ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ziɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zɨə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ziɔ/
Wang
Li		 /zĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /zi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 徐
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zjo ›
Old
Chinese		 /*sə.la/
English walk slowly

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 徐
Reading # 1/1
No. 15782
Phonetic
component		 余
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 徐
Old
Chinese		 /*lja/

Definitions

徐

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Japanese

Kanji

徐

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. gradually

Readings

Korean

Hanja

徐 • ‎(seo)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 서 (revised: seo, McCune-Reischauer: sŏ, Yale: se)
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Vietnamese

Han character

徐 (chờ, chừa, giờ, từ, thờ, xờ)

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