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shǔ
  1. 1.office
  2. 2.bureau
  3. 3.(Taiwan pr. [shù]) to sign
  4. 4.to arrange

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.office; bureau
  2. 2.a surname
  3. 3.to arrange
  4. 4.to sign
  5. 5.to handle by proxy; to act as deputy

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *djas): semantic 罒 (“net”) + phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ). Baxter and Sagart (2014) derive it from a root *taʔ (“to place”), from which they also derive 緒 (OC *s-m-taʔ, “to arrange in order”). The root also has a velar variant *tak, whence 著 (OC *tak, “to place”), 著 (OC *tak-s, “visible”), 席 (OC *s-m-tAk, “mat”) (Baxter and Sagart, 2014; Schuessler, 2007). See Proto-Sino-Tibetan *taʔ for Sino-Tibetan cognates.

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