Character: 序
Modern (Beijing) reading: xù
Preclassic Old Chinese: lhaʔ
Classic Old Chinese: lhá
Western Han Chinese: lhá
Eastern Han Chinese: zhá
Early Postclassic Chinese: zhó
Middle Postclassic Chinese: zhó
Late Postclassic Chinese: zhó
Middle Chinese: zjö́
English meaning : to arrange in a row, arrange, order; succeed
Russian meaning[s]: 1) порядок, последовательность; расставить в порядке; 2) предисловие (книги); 3) древн. школа
Comments: Used also for *lhaʔ 'space along North-South running walls at the side of a hall, galleries' (Sch.: 'probably same word as 序). A later meaning is ('ordering' > ) 'preface'. Standard Sino-Viet. is tụ'.
Radical: 53
Four-angle index: 3027
Karlgren code: 0083 h
Vietnamese reading: tụ'a
