Hanja Analyzer
敘

敘 — seo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
차례 서
Romanization
seo
English
express, state, relate, narrate
Mandarin
xù
Japanese on'yomi
ジョ
Japanese kun'yomi
つい.ず ついで
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
11
Variant forms
叙 敍
Radical
攴 (66, 7 residual)
Phonetic component
余
Unicode
U+6558

Parts that make up 敘

  • 余 나 여sound 풀로 이은 오두막‘여·서·도’ 계열의 소리
  • 攵 variant of 攴 손에 든 막대기치고 때려 시키는 일. 오른쪽에서 攵 으로 쓴다

How 敘 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 敘 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 余, 攴.

Characters sharing the phonetic 余

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “서”

Other hanja with radical 攴

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