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[425/808] Four Versions of 書 “book” Variants:書 - Taiwan, Japan, South Korea书 - Mainland China Origin: Phonosemantic compound. 聿 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound. Definition:① book, letter, document② writings Middle Chinese Reading:/*ɕǐo/Initial - sibilant (齒)Final - none Modern Readings:Mandarin - shūJapanese - ショ sho, かく kakuKorean - 글 서 geul seoCantonese - syu1Vietnamese - thơ, thư *** Get a compiled version of these posts and other useful resources by supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/808CJK *** References:Booklet of the 808 Commonly Used Chinese Characters in China, Japan and the ROK - www.tcs-asia.org/en/data/publications_down.php?idx…[CN] Trilateral Common Vocabulary Dictionary (3rd Edition) - www.tcs-asia.org/en/data/publications_down.php?idx…Unihan Database on 書 - www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint…[CN] Multi-function Chinese Character Database on 書 - humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?…Chinese Character Wiki on 書 - dong-chinese.com/wiki/%E6%9B%B8Official Readings of Jōyō Kanji - nihongo.monash.edu/jouyoureadings.html[KR] Naver Hanja Dictionary on 書 - hanja.dict.naver.com/#/entry/ccko/66f01499c83943ae…Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation’s Nôm Lookup Tool - nomfoundation.org/common/nom_details.php?codepoint…CJKV Dict on 書 - cjkvdict.com/?search=%E6%9B%B8Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters on 書, 季旭昇，2004《說文新證》，台北：藝文印書館印行，2014年9月第二版。 (p. 220),王力 主編，2000《王力古漢語字典》，北京：中華書局，2007年重印。 (p. 448),邵源、邵冠勇，2010《簡化漢字解說》，濟南：齊魯書社，2010年12月第一版。 (p. 6)[CN] ZDIC on Middle Chinese pronunciation of 書 (post used 王力's [Wang Li's] reconstruction) - www.zdic.net/zd/yy/zgy/%E6%9B%B8 Image Sources:Character versions from ZDIC - www.zdic.net/hans/%E6%9B%B8Evolution chart from 李學勤，2012《字源》，天津：天津古籍出版社，2013年7月2次印刷。 (p. 231)
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[425/808] Four Versions of 書 “book”
Variants:
書 - Taiwan, Japan, South Korea
书 - Mainland China
Origin: Phonosemantic compound. 聿 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.
Definition:
① book, letter, document
② writings
Middle Chinese Reading:
/*ɕǐo/
Initial - sibilant (齒)
Final - none
Modern Readings:
Mandarin - shū
Japanese - ショ sho, かく kaku
Korean - 글 서 geul seo
Cantonese - syu1
Vietnamese - thơ, thư
*** Get a compiled version of these posts and other useful resources by supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/808CJK ***
References:
Booklet of the 808 Commonly Used Chinese Characters in China, Japan and the ROK - www.tcs-asia.org/en/data/publications_down.php?idx…
[CN] Trilateral Common Vocabulary Dictionary (3rd Edition) - www.tcs-asia.org/en/data/publications_down.php?idx…
Unihan Database on 書 - www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint…
[CN] Multi-function Chinese Character Database on 書 - humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?…
Chinese Character Wiki on 書 - dong-chinese.com/wiki/%E6%9B%B8
Official Readings of Jōyō Kanji - nihongo.monash.edu/jouyoureadings.html
[KR] Naver Hanja Dictionary on 書 - hanja.dict.naver.com/#/entry/ccko/66f01499c83943ae…
Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation’s Nôm Lookup Tool - nomfoundation.org/common/nom_details.php?codepoint…
CJKV Dict on 書 - cjkvdict.com/?search=%E6%9B%B8
Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters on 書,
季旭昇，2004《說文新證》，台北：藝文印書館印行，2014年9月第二版。 (p. 220),
王力 主編，2000《王力古漢語字典》，北京：中華書局，2007年重印。 (p. 448),
邵源、邵冠勇，2010《簡化漢字解說》，濟南：齊魯書社，2010年12月第一版。 (p. 6)
[CN] ZDIC on Middle Chinese pronunciation of 書 (post used 王力's [Wang Li's] reconstruction) - www.zdic.net/zd/yy/zgy/%E6%9B%B8
Image Sources:
Character versions from ZDIC - www.zdic.net/hans/%E6%9B%B8
Evolution chart from 李學勤，2012《字源》，天津：天津古籍出版社，2013年7月2次印刷。 (p. 231)
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