殳

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – a hand holding a tool, hence activity.

Also Simplified from 𠬛 in some compounds, as in 没.

Han character

殳 (radical 79 殳+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓水 (HNE), X竹弓水 (XHNE), four-corner 7740₇, composition ⿱几又)

1. name of old weapon
2. kill
3. rad. 79

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/殳
• 没 役 股 設 般 癹

References

• KangXi: page 584, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16613
• Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2155, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6BB3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

殳 (Yale syu4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

殳 (POJ shû, Guangdong shu² [Meixian], s'u² [Hailu, Kwangtung], su² [Siyan, Bao'an], Hagfa Pinyim su1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

殳

Readings

• On: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: ほこ (hoko)

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Korean

Hanja

殳 (hangeul 쉬, revised swi, McCune-Reischauer swi, Yale swi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

殳 (pinyin shū (shu1), Wade-Giles shu¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

殳 (thù)