# 帚

| 帚 | U+5E1A, &#24090; 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 1722$_7$, 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
### 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 |
| | 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 (zhou$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zaau$^2$ / zau$^2$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): siu$^3$ / ziu$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiú / chhiú
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^5$tseu
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhǒu
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhǒu
*** Wade–Giles: chou$^3$
*** Yale: jǒu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: joou
*** Palladius: чжоу (čžou)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zaau$^2$ / zau$^2$
*** Yale: jáau / jáu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzaau$^2$ / dzau$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zao$^2$ / zeo$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡saːu̯³⁵/, /t͡sɐu̯³⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: siu$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiu⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: siu$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiu³³²/
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siu⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /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/
* chiú - literary;
* chhiú - vernacular.
* 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 | /t͡ɕɨu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕiu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕiəu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cuw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕiu$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕĭəu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡ɕi̯ə̯u$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhǒu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zau$^2$ |
* 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 | ‹ tsyuw$^X$ › |
| 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
* 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)‎, 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

(Hyōgai kanji)
* 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

* 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

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Kun: ほーち (hōchi, 帚)

### Noun

帚(ほーち) (hōchi)
* Alternative form of 箒 (hōchi)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

帚: Hán Nôm readings: chổi, trửu
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