帚

See also: 菷

帚	U+5E1A, 帚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E1A

← 帙
[U+5E19]

CJK Unified Ideographs

帛 →
[U+5E1B]

Translingual

Han character

帚 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸一月中月 (SMBLB), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿳𫜹冖巾 or ⿳⺕冖巾)

Derived characters

婦帰歸箒菷掃鯞㴆

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 330, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8854
Dae Jaweon: page 635, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 735, character 10
Unihan data for U+5E1A

Chinese

trad.		帚
simp. ^#		帚
alternative forms		箒／帚菷𦲅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 帚
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 (帚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
婦	*bɯʔ
帚	*pjuʔ
箒	*pjuʔ
鯞	*pjuʔ

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”), 彐, and overall graphically decomposes roughly as 肀 + 冖 + 巾.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhǒu (zhou³)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zaau² / zau²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiú / chhiú
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tseu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhǒu
  - Wade–Giles: chou³
  - Yale: jǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: joou
  - Palladius: чжоу (čžou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zaau² / zau²
  - Yale: jáau / jáu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzaau² / dzau²
  - Guangdong Romanization: zao² / zeo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːu̯³⁵/, /t͡sɐu̯³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiú
  - Tâi-lô: tsiú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciuo
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siu⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siu⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiú
  - Tâi-lô: tshiú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiuo
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiu⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiu⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

chiú - literary;
chhiú - vernacular.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵tseu
  - MiniDict: tseu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tseu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɤ³⁴/

Middle Chinese: tsyuwX

Rime
Character	帚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之九切
Baxter	tsyuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiəu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuw^X/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiu^X/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[t.p]əʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*pjuʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	帚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǒu
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[t.p]əʔ/
English	broom
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	帚
Reading #	1/1
No.	17551
Phonetic component	帚
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	帚
Old Chinese	/*pjuʔ/

Definitions

帚

broom; broomstick

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

帚

(Hyōgai kanji)

broom

Readings

Go-on: す (su)
Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
Kan’yō-on: そう (sō)
Kun: ほうき (hōki, 帚)

Compounds

箕帚(きしゅう) (kishū), 箕帚(きそう) (kisō)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

帚

Wikipedia ^ja

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
帚
ほうき Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 帚 – see the following entry.

【箒ほうき】H	[noun] [from 1496] broom
【箒ははき】H	[noun] [807–1400s] broom

(This term, 帚, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
帚
ははき Hyōgai
irregular

For pronunciation and definitions of 帚 – see the following entry.

【箒ほうき】H	[noun] [from 1496] broom
【箒ははき】H	[noun] [807–1400s] broom

(This term, 帚, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Okinawan

Kanji

帚

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Kun: ほーち (hōchi, 帚)

Noun

帚(ほーち) (hōchi)

Alternative form of 箒 (hōchi)

Vietnamese

Han character

帚: Hán Nôm readings: chổi, trửu

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