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

• 帰, 𠴵, 埽, 婦, 𡹙, 𢃞, 𱞨, 掃, 㴆, 𨺜, 䢜, 㫶, 㱕, 㷌, 𥇳, 𱀠, 𬖥, 𫃲, 𧌈, 𰯳, 𨓼, 𨧪, 𨺔, 𢅨, 𡚖, 𭘺, 歸, 𱜹, 鯞, 𫚡, 𪂋
• 𢅜, 𡞒, 𱟜, 𫹅, 𪩺, 𢃳, 𢽪, 𢽰, 𲉕, 𢅦, 𪂪, 𡨦, 菷, 箒, 𮫌, 𡪷, 𱷕, 㝲, 𬤸
• 㑴, 𡎹, 𢱥, 𣹰, 𣖽, 𥛆, 𦃌, 𩤿, 𠖗, 𡩠, 𦵲

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
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): siu³ / ziu³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiú / chhiú
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tseu

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• 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/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: siu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: siu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu³³²/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu³³²/
• 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/

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• 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	/t͡ɕɨuX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯uX/
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	‹ tsyuwX ›
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

1. broom; broomstick

Compounds

• 剔帚
• 千金敝帚
• 堊帚 / 垩帚
• 執箕帚 / 执箕帚
• 奉箕帚
• 帚星 (zhǒuxīng)
• 弊帚千金
• 弊帚自珍
• 掃帚 / 扫帚
• 掃帚星 / 扫帚星
• 掃愁帚 / 扫愁帚
• 敝帚千金 (bìzhǒuqiānjīn)
• 敝帚自珍 (bìzhǒuzìzhēn)
• 炊帚 (chuīzhou)
• 笤帚 (tiáozhou)
• 筅帚 (xiǎnzhǒu)
• 箕帚 (jīzhǒu)
• 箕帚之使
• 苕帚 (tiáozhou)
• 草帚兒 / 草帚儿
• 蠅帚子 / 蝇帚子
• 鐵掃帚 / 铁扫帚
• 雞毛帚 / 鸡毛帚 (jīmáozhǒu)
• 雞毛打帚 / 鸡毛打帚
• 雲帚 / 云帚
• 電帚 / 电帚

 

References

• “帚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “帚”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 312.

Japanese

Kanji

帚

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. 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

Compounds

• 箕帚(きしゅう) (kishū), 箕帚(きそう) (kisō)

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) 

1. Alternative form of 箒 (hōchi)

Vietnamese

Han character

帚: Hán Nôm readings: chổi, trửu

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