帚

See also 菷

Translingual

Etymology

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

In modern form, top now resembles 聿 (“hand”), 肀 (“brush”), ヨ, 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)

1. broom, broomstick

Derived characters

• 婦 帰 歸 箒 菷

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

帚 (Yale jau2)

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Japanese

Kanji

帚

Readings

• On: そう (sō), しゅう (shū)
• Kun: ほうき (houki)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

帚 (pinyin zhǒu (zhou3), Wade-Giles chou³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

帚 (trửu, chổi)