紓

See also: 纾

紓 U+7D13, 紓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D13 ← 紒 [U+7D12] CJK Unified Ideographs 純 → [U+7D14]

Translingual

Han character

紓 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓戈弓 (VFNIN), four-corner 2792₂, composition ⿰糹予)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 917, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27276
• Dae Jaweon: page 1346, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3378, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7D13

Chinese

trad.		紓
simp.		纾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 紓
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
野	*laːʔ, *ɦljaʔ
壄	*laːʔ
序	*ljaʔ
抒	*ljaʔ, *hlja, *ɦljaʔ
芧	*l'aʔ
杼	*l'aʔ, *ɦljaʔ
墅	*ɦljaːʔ
舒	*hlja
紓	*hlja, *ɦljaʔ
妤	*la
伃	*la
予	*la, *laʔ
預	*las
忬	*las
豫	*las
蕷	*las
澦	*las

Etymology

Compared by Luce to Burmese လျော့ (lyau., “to slacken, subside”). Possibly connected to 舒 (OC *hlja, “to relax; comfortable”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū (shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shu
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹
    • Yale: shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: syu¹
    • Yale: syū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: syo, zyoX

Rime
Character	紓	紓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	船 (27)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	傷魚切	神與切
Baxter	syo	zyoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨʌ/	/ʑɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɔ/	/ʑiɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɔ/	/ʑiɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨə̆/	/ʑɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ɕiɔ/	/d͡ʑiɔX/
Wang Li	/ɕĭo/	/d͡ʑĭoX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯wo/	/d͡ʑʰi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shū	shù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu1	syu6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥a/, /*Cə.laʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hlja/, /*ɦljaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	紓	紓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ syo ›	‹ zyoX ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥a/	/*Cə.laʔ/
English	leisurely	to be remiss
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	紓	紓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15732	15733
Phonetic component	予	予
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	書	紓
Old Chinese	/*hlja/	/*ɦljaʔ/

Definitions

紓

1. loosen, relax, relieve
2. extricate

Japanese

Kanji

紓

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょ (sho)、じょ (jo)
• Kun: ゆるい (yurui)

Korean

Hanja

紓 • (seo) (hangeul 서)

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