xù
order, sequence
Original meaning:
walls at side of palace
Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 予 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "walls at side of palace". The meaning later shifted to "order" and "sequence".
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[sə.l]aʔ | zjoX | xù | walls at side of palace |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 22.9057% of movies
1333rd most common character in movies
836th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5E8F |
Shuowen | “序,東西牆也。从广,予聲。” |
Sources
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