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署

署

Translingual

Han character

署 (radical 122 网+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 田中十大日 (WLJKA), four-corner 60604, composition ⿱⺲者)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 948, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28311
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1390, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2918, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7F72

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 署

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (者) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觰 *rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸 *tjaː, *tja
者 *tjaːʔ
堵 *tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭 *tjaːʔ
撦 *l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯 *tʰjaːʔ
闍 *djaː, *taː
奢 *hljaː
鍺 *toːlʔ
都 *taː
醏 *taː
覩 *taːʔ
睹 *taːʔ
暏 *taːʔ
賭 *taːʔ
帾 *taːʔ
楮 *taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠 *daː, *da
瘏 *daː
廜 *daː
鷵 *daː
緒 *ljaʔ
豬 *ta
猪 *ta
瀦 *ta
藸 *ta, *da
櫫 *ta
褚 *taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著 *taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸 *tas, *das
儲 *da
躇 *da
櫧 *tja
藷 *tja, *djas
蠩 *tja
煮 *tjaʔ
渚 *tjaʔ
煑 *tjaʔ
陼 *tjaʔ
翥 *tjas
署 *djas
薯 *djas
曙 *djas
書 *hlja
暑 *hjaʔ
鐯 *taɡ
擆 *taɡ
櫡 *taɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djas) : semantic 罒 + phonetic 者 ‎(OC *tjaːʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 署
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 常恕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑɨʌH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɔH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiɔH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑɨə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiɔH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭoH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯woH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 署
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyoH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-taʔ-s/
English to place; position

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 署
Reading # 1/1
No. 17009
Phonetic
component		 者
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 署
Old
Chinese		 /*djas/

Definitions

署

  1. (public) office; bureau
    公署  ―  gōngshǔ  ―  government office
    警察署  ―  jǐngcháshǔ  ―  police station
  2. to sign
    簽署 / 签署  ―  qiānshǔ  ―  to sign
    署名  ―  shǔmíng  ―  signature

Compounds

  • 公署 (gōngshǔ)
  • 兼署
  • 副署
  • 地檢署／地检署
  • 太空總署／太空总署
  • 官署 (guānshǔ)
  • 密集部署
  • 布署
  • 平行官署
  • 木天署
  • 檢察署／检察署
  • 消防署 (xiāofángshǔ)
  • 簽署／签署 (qiānshǔ)
  • 粉署
  • 署名 (shǔmíng)
  • 署吏
  • 署書／署书
  • 署榜
  • 署理
  • 署缺
  • 署辦／署办
  • 署長／署长
  • 行政官署
  • 衙署
  • 警政署
  • 連署／连署 (liánshǔ)
  • 郎署
  • 部署 (bùshǔ)
  • 題署／题署
  • 鼇署

Japanese

Kanji

署

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. signature
  2. government office
  3. police station

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

署 (thự, thợ, thuỳ)

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