聿

See also: ⺻ and 肀

聿	U+807F, 聿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-807F

← 聾
[U+807E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

肀 →
[U+8080]

⾀	U+2F80, ⾀ KANGXI RADICAL BRUSH

← ⽿
[U+2F7F]

Kangxi Radicals

⾁ →
[U+2F81]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

聿 (Kangxi radical 129, 聿+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中手 (LQ), four-corner 5000₇, composition ⿻肀二 or ⿻𦘒一)

Kangxi radical #129, ⾀.

Derived characters

Appendix:Chinese radical/聿
侓, 冿, 㖀, 垏, 峍, 律, 津, 珒, 硉, 䋖, 貄, 銉, 䮇
建, 䢖, 䀌, 衋, 茟, 筆, 㡽

Additional Derived Characters

𢘶, 𢫫, 𤝽, 𲉏, 𰓪, 𣑵, 𤈠, 𦛌, 𥞰, 𧙻, 𥹧, 𦨱, 𧊐, 𧧪, 𧱇, 𨀞, 𫽹, 𫙟, 𪀴
𠜈, 𪁀, 𧗙, 𡷏, 𱻿, 𩬶, 𬯟, 𤌛, 𤏑, 𮢢, 𲅱, 𮟘, 𰻌, 𫲌, 𧗃

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 971, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29215
Dae Jaweon: page 1422, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3166, character 1
Unihan data for U+807F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		聿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 聿
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (聿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
筆	*prud
潷	*prud
硉	*ruːd
律	*rud
葎	*b·rud
聿	*b·lud
銉	*lud

Pictogram (象形) or ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): hand (又) holding a brush (𰀁). Originally referred to 筆 (OC *prud, “writing brush”); later jiajie (假借) for 聿 (OC *b·lud, “thereupon”).

Unrelated to 建, in which the hand is holding a pole.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ / leot⁶ / wat⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lu̍t
Eastern Min (BUC): ṳ̆k
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): yh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): u̍t

(Teochew, Peng'im): lug⁸

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yù
  - Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yù
  - Wade–Giles: yü⁴
  - Yale: yù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
  - Palladius: юй (juj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jyut⁶ / leot⁶ / wat⁶
  - Yale: yuht / leuht / waht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyt⁹ / loet⁹ / wat⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yud⁶ / lêd⁶ / wed⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːt̚²/, /lɵt̚²/, /wɐt̚²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lu̍t
  - Hakka Romanization System: lud
  - Hagfa Pinyim: lud⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /lut̚⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ṳ̆k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yʔ⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: yh⁷
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ṳ̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yʔ⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: u̍t
  - Tâi-lô: u̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ut
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ut̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ut̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ut̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ut̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ut̚⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lug⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lu̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /luk̚⁴/

Middle Chinese: ywit

Rime
Character	聿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘律切
Baxter	ywit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/juet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwit̚/
Li Rong	/iuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/jĭuĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wat⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[N.]rut/, /*[m-]rut/

(Zhengzhang): /*b·lud/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	聿	聿
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ ywit ›	‹ ywit ›
Old Chinese	/*[N.]rut/	/*[m-]rut/
English	following, thereupon	writing stylus or brush (pron. in Chǔ 楚 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn)
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	聿
Reading #	1/1
No.	15980
Phonetic component	聿
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	聿
Old Chinese	/*b·lud/

Definitions

聿

Original form of 筆／笔 (bǐ, “writing brush; pencil”).
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) sentence-initial or sentence-medial introductory particle: then; and then; thereupon
(Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to scribble, scrawl, or daub in a hasty and careless way
作業聿兩字就交去。 [Hokkien, trad.]
作业聿两字就交去。 [Hokkien, simp.]
Chok-gia̍p u̍t nňg lī chiū kau khì. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
He submitted his homework after hastily scribbling two words in it.

掃帚聿一下準拄好。 [Hokkien, trad.]
扫帚聿一下准拄好。 [Hokkien, simp.]
Sàu-chhiú u̍t chi̍t-ē chún-tú-hó. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
He carelessly and hastily scrawled the broom a bit just to finish doing it.
a surname

Compounds

聿皇

References

“聿”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
“聿”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “聿”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 292.

Japanese

Kanji

聿

(Hyōgai kanji)

writing brush, pencil
thereupon

Readings

On (unclassified): いつ (itsu)、いち (ichi)
Kun: ふで (fude)、ここに (kokoni)
Nanori: のぶ (nobu)

References

“^▲聿”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

聿 (eumhun 붓 율 (but yul))

hanja form^? of 율 (“writing brush, paint brush”)

Vietnamese

Han character

聿: Hán Nôm readings: duật

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