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序

xù

order, sequence

Original meaning: 

walls at side of palace

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 予 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "walls at side of palace". The meaning later shifted to "order" and "sequence".

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

予 sound component

予  Sound component

yǔ, yú

  

give

Evolution

序 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
序 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
序 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
序 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

序  

xù

series, serial order, sequence; order; sequence; preface

Most common words with 序
Freq.
Word
Meaning

程序

procedures

秩序

order (orderly)

顺序

sequence

序

order

序列

sequence

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[sə.l]aʔ

zjoX

xù

walls at side of palace


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 22.9057% of movies

1333rd most common character in movies

836th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5E8F

Shuowen

“序，東西牆也。从广，予聲。”


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