叙

to narrate; to chat

9 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,851 U+53D9

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

又 (semantic, “again”) + 余 (phonetic, yú)

components: 余又

recount · Heisig RSH #2649

scale + crotch

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 余

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 余 (yú) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
余 sound component	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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
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