Chinese Character Wiki

徐

xú

slowly

Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 余 represents the sound.

Components
彳 meaning component

彳  Meaning component

chì

  

walk

彳 is a component form of 行.

余 sound component

余  Sound component

yú

  

I

Evolution

徐 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
徐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
徐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
徐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

徐  

xú

slowly, quietly, calmly; composed, dignified; slowly; gently

徐  

Xú

surname Xu

Most common words with 徐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

徐

slowly

徐徐

slowly

徐州

Xuzhou prefecture level city in Jiangsu

徐克

Tsui Hark (1951-), Chinese movie director and producer

徐志摩

Xu Zhimo (1897-1931), writer and poet

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə.la

zjo

xú

walk slowly


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.8009% of movies

3221st most common character in movies

1313th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5F90

Shuowen

“徐，安行也。从彳，余聲。”


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