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叙

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to narrate; to chat

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Old HSK
Level 5
Strokes
9
Radical
又 +7
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
叙
Common rank
#1,851
Unicode
U+53D9

Sound it out + =

Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

How 叙 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

又 meaning “again” + 余 sound ( yú )

Components 余 又

How to remember it

recount · Heisig RSH #2649

scale + crotch

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 叙

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
叙利亚文 Xù lì yà wén Syriac language (from c. 2nd century BC); the Syriac script
叙州区 Xù zhōu Qū Xuzhou, a district of Yibin City 宜賓市|宜宾市[Yi2 bin1 Shi4], Sichuan
叙利亚 Xù lì yà Syria
叙事线 xù shì xiàn narrative thread; storyline
叙拉古 Xù lā gǔ Syracuse, Sicily; also written 錫拉庫薩|锡拉库萨[Xi1 la1 ku4 sa4]
记叙文 jì xù wén narrative writing; written narration
叙永县 Xù yǒng Xiàn Xuyong, a county in Luzhou City 瀘州市|泸州市[Lu2 zhou1 Shi4], Sichuan
平铺直叙 píng pū zhí xù (idiom) (neutral) to narrate in a plain, unaffected manner; (mildly critical) to recount e…
面叙 miàn xù to talk face-to-face
叙文 xù wén variant of 序文[xu4 wen2]
叙事 xù shì to narrate; to recount; narrative
叙明 xù míng detailed accounting
叙州 Xù zhōu see 敘州區|叙州区[Xu4 zhou1 Qu1]
叙言 xù yán variant of 序言[xu4 yan2]
叙事诗 xù shì shī narrative poem
以叙 Yǐ Xù Israel-Syria
记叙 jì xù to narrate; narrative
倒叙 dào xù to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginni…
叙述性 xù shù xìng narrative
顺叙 shùn xù chronological narration

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 余 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
余 sound part yú surplus, remainder; surname
途 tú way, road, path, journey, course
斜 xié slanting, sloping, inclined
涂 tú to smear, to scribble, to daub; surname
徐 xú slowly, quietly, calmly; dignified, composed
荼 tú a bitter vegetable
嵞 tú a mountain in Zhejiang
狳 yú armadillo
蜍 chú toad (2)
酴 tú yeast; wine; to leaven, to ferment