# 聿

| 聿 | U+807F, &#32895; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-807F |
| ← 聾 [U+807E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 肀 → [U+8080] |
| ⾀ | U+2F80, &#12160; KANGXI RADICAL BRUSH |
| ← ⽿ [U+2F7F] | Kangxi Radicals | ⾁ → [U+2F81] |

## Translingual
### Han character

聿 (Kangxi radical 129, 聿+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中手 (LQ), four-corner 5000$_7$, composition ⿻肀二 or ⿻𦘒一)
* Kangxi radical #129, ⾀.

#### Derived characters

* Appendix:Chinese radical/聿
* 侓, 冿, 㖀, 垏, 峍, 律, 𢘶, 𢫫, 津, 𤝽, 𣑵, 𤈠, 珒, 𦛌, 硉, 𥞰, 𧙻, 𥹧, 䋖, 𦨱, 𧊐, 𧧪, 𧱇, 貄, 𨀞, 銉, 𫽹, 䮇, 𪀴, 𫙟, 建, 䢖
* 𠜈, 𪁀, 𬎾, 䀌, 衋, 𡷏, 茟, 筆, 𩬶, 㡽

#### See also

* 隶, 唐, 妻
* 書, 㶳, 畫, 畵

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 971, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29215
* Dae Jaweon: page 1422, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3166, character 1
* Unihan data for U+807F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 聿 :
| 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 |
| 筆 | *prud |
| 潷 | *prud |
| 硉 | *ruːd |
| 律 | *rud |
| 葎 | *b·rud |
| 聿 | *b·lud |
| 銉 | *lud |
Pictogram (象形) or ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): hand (又) holding a brush (𰀁). Unrelated to 建, in which the hand is holding a pole. Partly related to 津.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yù (yu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut$^6$ / leot$^6$ / wat$^6$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lu̍t
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): u̍t
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yù
*** Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yù
*** Wade–Giles: yü$^4$
*** Yale: yù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
*** Palladius: юй (juj)
*** Sinological IPA : /y⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jyut$^6$ / leot$^6$ / wat$^6$
*** Yale: yuht / leuht / waht
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jyt$^9$ / loet$^9$ / wat$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yud$^6$ / lêd$^6$ / wed$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /jyːt̚²/, /lɵt̚²/, /wɐt̚²/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lu̍t
*** Hakka Romanization System: lud
*** Hagfa Pinyim: lud$^6$
*** Sinological IPA: /lut̚⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: u̍t
*** Tâi-lô: u̍t
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ut
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ut̚⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ut̚²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ut̚¹²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ut̚⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ut̚⁴/
* Middle Chinese: ywit
Rime :
| Character | 聿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 術 (52) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 餘律切 |
| Baxter | ywit |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jiuɪt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jʷit̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /juet̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jwit̚/ |
| Li Rong | /iuĕt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭuĕt̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /i̯uĕt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wat$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[N.]rut/, /*[m-]rut/
    (Zhengzhang): /*b·lud/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 聿 | 聿 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yù | yù |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ywit › | ‹ ywit › |
| Old Chinese | /*[N.]rut/ | /*[m-]rut/ |
| English | following, thereupon | writing stylus or brush (pron. in Chǔ 楚 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn) |
| 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 | 聿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15980 |
| Phonetic component | 聿 |
| Rime group | 物 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 聿 |
| Old Chinese | /*b·lud/ |

### Definitions

聿
* Original form of 筆／笔 (bǐ, “writing brush; pencil”).
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) sentence-initial or sentence-medial introductory particle: then; and then; thereupon
* (Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to scribble, scrawl, or daub in a hasty and careless way
       Chok-gia̍p u̍t nňg lī chiū kau khì. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       He submitted his homework after hastily scribbling two words in it.
       Sàu-chhiú u̍t chi̍t-ē chún-tú-hó. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       He carelessly and hastily scrawled the broom a bit just to finish doing it.
* a surname

### Compounds

* 聿皇

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* writing brush, pencil
* thereupon

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): いつ (itsu)、いち (ichi)
* Kun: ふで (fude)、ここに (kokoni)
* Nanori: のぶ (nobu)

## Korean
### Hanja

聿 (eumhun 붓 율 (but yul))
* hanja form of 율 (“writing brush, paint brush”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

聿: Hán Nôm readings: duật
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