# 殳

| 殳 | U+6BB3, &#27571; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BB3 |
| ← 殲 [U+6BB2] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 殴 → [U+6BB4] |
| ⽎ | U+2F4E, &#12110; KANGXI RADICAL WEAPON |
| ← ⽍ [U+2F4D] | Kangxi Radicals | ⽏ → [U+2F4F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

殳 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓水 (HNE) or 難竹弓水 (XHNE), four-corner 7740$_7$, composition ⿱𠘧又(GHT) or ⿱几又(JK))
* Kangxi radical #79, ⽎.

#### Derived characters

* Appendix:Chinese radical/殳
* 芟, 癹, 䯴, 疫
* 伇, 吺, 坄, 役, 投, 没, 杸, 殁, 炈, 股, 祋, 砓, 竐, 羖, 般, 設(设), 豛, 䝘, 䟝, 軗(𨐅), 酘, 鈠(𨱁), 䩔, 䬦, 㨌, 骰
* 𡚾, 𭚧, 𢗎, 𤝈, 𨸜, 𤓶, 𤖬, 𤤄, 𥍟, 𥝻, 𧘣, 𰯯, 𧈻, 𧣇, 𧺢, 𨱚, 𧰵, 𫘈, 𨕵, 𩵤, 𪉘, 𪌓, 𪐮, 𬖫, 𧯸, 𪕂, 𬗿, 𫠙, 𪛒
* 𠚹, 𫽑, 𡧔, 𦤂, 𬯹, 𥰺, 𠨻, 𭙔, 𡇀

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 584, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16613
* Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2155, character 1
* Unihan data for U+6BB3

## Chinese

* 殳部 (Written Standard Chinese)
* Radical 79 (English)
* 殳 (武器)
* 殳姓

### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 殳 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Qin slip script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 吺 | *toː |
| 祋 | *toːd, *toːds |
| 投 | *doː |
| 骰 | *doː, *srɯɡ |
| 酘 | *doːs |
| 坄 | *doː, *leɡ |
| 殳 | *djo |
| 杸 | *djo |
Pictogram (象形) or Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𠘧 + 又 – a hand holding a tool similar to a hammer, hence activity (with a reference to the act of "beating"). See also 段 and the original version on oracle bones of 鼓.
The whole character was then borrowed phonetically to indicate an ancient halberd made of bamboo.

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shū (shu$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): syu$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sû
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shū
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shu
*** Wade–Giles: shu$^1$
*** Yale: shū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
*** Palladius: шу (šu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂu⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: syu$^4$
*** Yale: syùh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sy$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /syː²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
*** Tâi-lô: sû
*** Phofsit Daibuun: suu
*** IPA (Xiamen): /su²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /su²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /su¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /su²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/
* Middle Chinese: dzyu
Rime :
| Character | 殳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 市朱切 |
| Baxter | dzyu |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /d͡ʑɨo/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /d͡ʑio/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /d͡ʑio/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /d͡ʑuə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /ʑio/ |
| Wang Li | /ʑĭu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʑi̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | chú |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | syu$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]o/
    (Zhengzhang): /*djo/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 殳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shū |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dzyu › |
| Old Chinese | /*[d]o/ |
| English | a kind of lance |
| 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 | 殳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11721 |
| Phonetic component | 殳 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 殊 |
| Old Chinese | /*djo/ |

#### Definitions

殳
* (historical) shu (an ancient Chinese weapon)
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Bó yě zhí shū, wèi wáng qiánqū. [Pinyin]
    My husband, grasping his halberd, is in the leading chariot of the king's [host].
* handle of halberd
* a surname

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 殳 – see 沒 (“not have; there is not; to be without; to be not so ... as; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 沒).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* pike

#### Readings

* Go-on: ず (zu)
* Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
* Kun: ほこ (hoko, 殳)、また (mata, 殳)

## Korean
### Hanja

殳 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale su)
* long pole

## Vietnamese
### Han character

殳: Hán Nôm readings: thù
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