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English definition beginning, initial, primary
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system chu1
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) chū(405)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *chriu
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system co1
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system cho1
Japanese (Kana) ショ ソ はじめ はじめて はつ うい そめる うぶ
Japanese (Hepburn) hajime hatsu ui
Sino-Japanese sho so
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system cho
Hangul 초:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ
Unicode radical / stroke count 刀刂 + 5 145
Unicode total stroke count 7
Cangjie LSH
Four corner code 3722.0
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 2
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 1, page 327, character 22
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 137, position 33
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 310, position 1
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0087a
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 178, row 4, position 5
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 66, character 25
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 57, character 11 page 627, character 2
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 219A
page 97, position 2
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 1353
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 1390
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 351
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 572
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 326
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 3679
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 4215
PRC telegraph code 0443
Taiwan telegraph code 0443
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 21021 / 521D