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

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

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

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

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

Pronunciation

• 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

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

• Old Chinese

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

  (Zhengzhang): /*b·lud/

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/

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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