# 署

| 署 | U+7F72, &#32626; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F72 |
| ← 罱 [U+7F71] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 罳 → [U+7F73] |
| 署 | U+FA5A, &#64090; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA5A |
| ← 繁 [U+FA59] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 者 → [U+FA5B] |

## Translingual
### Han character

署 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 田中十大日 (WLJKA), four-corner 6060$_4$, composition ⿱罒者)

#### Derived characters

* 濖, 𠏲, 𨽉, 𫶳, 𡣈, 曙, 𣞍, 糬, 𥌓, 薯, 𥵟, 鱰, 𪋰

#### See also

* 暑

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 948, character 37
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28311
* Dae Jaweon: page 1390, character 15
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2918, character 5
* Unihan data for U+7F72
* Unihan data for U+FA5A

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 觰 | *rtaːʔ, *rtaː |
| 諸 | *tjaː, *tja |
| 者 | *tjaːʔ |
| 堵 | *tjaːʔ, *taːʔ |
| 赭 | *tjaːʔ |
| 撦 | *l̥ʰjaːʔ |
| 扯 | *tʰjaːʔ |
| 闍 | *djaː, *taː |
| 奢 | *hljaː |
| 鍺 | *toːlʔ |
| 都 | *taː |
| 醏 | *taː |
| 覩 | *taːʔ |
| 睹 | *taːʔ |
| 暏 | *taːʔ |
| 賭 | *taːʔ |
| 帾 | *taːʔ |
| 楮 | *taːʔ, *tʰaʔ |
| 屠 | *daː, *da |
| 瘏 | *daː |
| 廜 | *daː |
| 鷵 | *daː |
| 緒 | *ljaʔ |
| 豬 | *ta |
| 猪 | *ta |
| 瀦 | *ta |
| 藸 | *ta, *da |
| 櫫 | *ta |
| 褚 | *taʔ, *tʰaʔ |
| 著 | *taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ |
| 箸 | *tas, *das |
| 儲 | *da |
| 躇 | *da |
| 櫧 | *tja |
| 藷 | *tja, *djas |
| 蠩 | *tja |
| 煮 | *tjaʔ |
| 渚 | *tjaʔ |
| 煑 | *tjaʔ |
| 陼 | *tjaʔ |
| 翥 | *tjas |
| 署 | *djas |
| 薯 | *djas |
| 曙 | *djas |
| 書 | *hlja |
| 暑 | *hjaʔ |
| 鐯 | *taɡ |
| 擆 | *taɡ |
| 櫡 | *taɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djas): semantic 罒 + phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ); the upper component is a web, not an eye.

### Etymology

Baxter and Sagart (2014) derive it from a root *taʔ (“to place”), from which they also derive 緒 (OC *s-m-taʔ, “to arrange in order”). The root also has a velar variant *tak, whence 著 (OC *t<r>ak, “to place”), 著 (OC *t<r>ak-s, “visible”), 席 (OC *s-m-tAk, “mat”) (Baxter and Sagart, 2014; Schuessler, 2007).

### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shǔ (shu$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu$^5$ / syu$^5$ / syu$^6$ / syu$^3$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): su
* Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̄
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sy$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): sú / sír / sí
    (Teochew, Peng'im): su$^2$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$zy
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shǔ
*** Wade–Giles: shu$^3$
*** Yale: shǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuu
*** Palladius: шу (šu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂu²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: cyu$^5$ / syu$^5$ / syu$^6$ / syu$^3$
*** Yale: chyúh / syúh / syuh / syu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsy$^5$ / sy$^5$ / sy$^6$ / sy$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: qu$^5$ / xu$^5$ / xu$^6$ / xu$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰyː¹³/, /syː¹³/, /syː²²/, /syː³³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su
*** Hakka Romanization System: su
*** Hagfa Pinyim: su$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /su⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̄
*** Sinological IPA : /sy³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sy$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬy⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sy$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬy³³²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sú
*** Tâi-lô: sú
*** Phofsit Daibuun: suo
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /su⁵³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sír
*** Tâi-lô: sír
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí
*** Tâi-lô: sí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sie
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁵³/
* Quanzhou:
** sír - literary;
** sú - colloquial variant.
* Middle Chinese: dzyoH
Rime :
| Character | 署 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 魚 (22) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 常恕切 |
| Baxter | dzyoH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /d͡ʑɨʌ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /d͡ʑiɔ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /d͡ʑiɔ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /d͡ʑɨə̆$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʑiɔ$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ʑĭo$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʑi̯wo$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | syu$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-taʔ-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*djas/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 署 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dzyo$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*m-taʔ-s/ |
| English | to place; position |
| 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 | 署 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17009 |
| Phonetic component | 者 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 署 |
| Old Chinese | /*djas/ |

#### Definitions

署
* (public) office; bureau
    公署 ― gōngshǔ ― government office
    警察署 ― jǐngcháshǔ ― police station
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 公署 (gōngshǔ)
* 地檢署 / 地检署 (dìjiǎnshǔ)
* 太空總署 / 太空总署
* 官署 (guānshǔ)
* 平行官署
* 木天署
* 檢查署 / 检查署
* 消防署 (xiāofángshǔ)
* 粉署
* 署吏
* 署長 / 署长 (shǔzhǎng)
* 行政官署
* 衙署 (yáshǔ)
* 警署 (jǐngshǔ)
* 郎署警政署
* 鼇署 / 鳌署

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shǔ, shù
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ, ㄕㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu$^5$ / syu$^5$ / syu$^6$ / syu$^3$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): su
* Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̄
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sy$^5$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): sú / sír / sí
    (Teochew, Peng'im): su$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shǔ
*** Wade–Giles: shu$^3$
*** Yale: shǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuu
*** Palladius: шу (šu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂu²¹⁴/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shù
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shù
*** Wade–Giles: shu$^4$
*** Yale: shù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
*** Palladius: шу (šu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: cyu$^5$ / syu$^5$ / syu$^6$ / syu$^3$
*** Yale: chyúh / syúh / syuh / syu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsy$^5$ / sy$^5$ / sy$^6$ / sy$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: qu$^5$ / xu$^5$ / xu$^6$ / xu$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰyː¹³/, /syː¹³/, /syː²²/, /syː³³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su
*** Hakka Romanization System: su
*** Hagfa Pinyim: su$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /su⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̄
*** Sinological IPA : /sy³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sy$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬy²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sú
*** Tâi-lô: sú
*** Phofsit Daibuun: suo
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /su⁵³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sír
*** Tâi-lô: sír
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí
*** Tâi-lô: sí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sie
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁵³/
* Quanzhou:
** sír - literary;
** sú - colloquial variant.
* Middle Chinese: dzyoH
Rime :
| Character | 署 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 魚 (22) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 常恕切 |
| Baxter | dzyoH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /d͡ʑɨʌ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /d͡ʑiɔ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /d͡ʑiɔ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /d͡ʑɨə̆$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʑiɔ$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ʑĭo$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʑi̯wo$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | syu$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-taʔ-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*djas/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 署 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dzyo$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*m-taʔ-s/ |
| English | to place; position |
| 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 | 署 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17009 |
| Phonetic component | 者 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 署 |
| Old Chinese | /*djas/ |

#### Definitions

署
* to arrange
    部署 ― bùshǔ ― to lay out; to deploy
* to sign
    簽署／签署 ― qiānshǔ ― to sign
    署名 ― shǔmíng ― signature
* to handle by proxy; to act as deputy

#### Compounds

* 兼署
* 副署 (fùshǔ)
* 密集部署
* 布署 (bùshǔ)
* 簽署 / 签署 (qiānshǔ)
* 署名 (shǔmíng)
* 署吏
* 署書 / 署书
* 署榜
* 署理 (shǔlǐ)
* 署缺
* 署辦 / 署办
* 連署 / 连署 (liánshǔ)
* 部署 (bùshǔ)
* 題署 / 题署

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 署 |
| Kyūjitai | 署 &#xFA5A; or 署+&#xFE00; |
| Kyūjitai | 署󠄀 署+&#xE0100; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 署󠄃 署+&#xE0103; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 署)
* signature
* government office
* police station

#### Readings

* Go-on: じょ (jo)
* Kan-on: しょ (sho, Jōyō)
* Kun: しるす (shirusu, 署す)、やくわり (yakuwari, 署)

### References

* ↑ “署”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

## Korean
### Hanja

署 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

署: Hán Nôm readings: thự, thợ, thùy/thuỳ
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