叙 (xù): to narrate, to chat
叙 (xù) is a Chinese character meaning “to narrate.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 余 (phonetic) and 又 (semantic). It ranks #1596 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 叙 again. Its radical form 又 (again) appears in many related characters such as 友 (yǒu, friend), 又 (yòu, (once) again), 发 (fā, to send out).
Definitions
- to narrate
- to chat
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 叙
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 叙利亚proper-noun | xù lì yà | Syria |
| 叙旧verb | xù jiù | to reminisce |
| 叙事verb | xù shì | to narrate |
| 叙事诗noun | xù shì shī | narrative poem |
| 记叙verb | jì xù | to narrate |
| 倒叙verb | dào xù | to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning |
| 叙永 | xù yǒng | see 敘永縣|叙永县 |
| 记叙文noun | jì xù wén | narrative writing |
| 平铺直叙phrase | píng pū zhí xù | (idiom) (neutral) to narrate in a plain, unaffected manner |
| 叙利亚文 | xù lì yà wén | Syriac language (from c. 2nd century BC) |
| 叙事线noun | xù shì xiàn | narrative thread |
| 叙拉古 | xù lā gǔ | Syracuse, Sicily |
| 以叙 | yǐ xù | Israel-Syria |
| 叙述性 | xù shù xìng | narrative |
| 面叙 | miàn xù | to talk face-to-face |
叙 appears in 32 compound words: 53 as the first character, 38 as the last, and 9 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 叙 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
两位老朋友久别重逢，叙旧聊了很久。
Liǎng wèi lǎo péngyou jiǔbié chóngféng, xùjiù liáo le hěn jiǔ.
Two old friends reunited after a long separation and chatted about old times for a long while.
新春茶叙 赖总统会五院聚焦关税
xīn chūn chá xù lài zǒng tǒng huì wǔ yuàn jù jiāo guān shuì
New Year Tea Gathering: President Lai Meets with Five Branches of Government to Focus on Tariffs
...业证券:美关税判决是行政权受限带来的长期叙事变化 关注税率下降对A股出口链影响
. . . yè zhèng quàn měi guān shuì pàn jué shì háng zhèng quán shòu xiàn dài lái de cháng qī xù shì biàn huà guān zhù shuì lǜ xià jiàng duì gǔ chū kǒu liàn yǐng xiǎng
Securities: U.S. Tariff Ruling Signals Long-Term Narrative Shift Amid Restricted Executive Authority; Monitor Impact of Rate Cuts on A-Share Export Chain
总统邀五院茶叙 钟佳滨:可协调院际捍格、厘清关税议题
zǒng tǒng yāo wǔ yuàn chá xù zhōng jiā bīn kě xié diào yuàn jì hàn gé lí qīng guān shuì yì tí
President Invites Five Legislative Bodies to Tea Gathering Chung Chia-pin: Can Coordinate Inter-Institutional Coordination and Clarify Tariff Issues
独家》韩国瑜也穿?赖清德邀五院院长茶叙 伴手礼竟是这“超夯战袍”
dú jiā hán guó 瑜 yě chuān ? lài qīng dé yāo wǔ yuàn yuàn cháng chá xù bàn shǒu lǐ jìng shì zhè chāo 夯 zhàn páo
Exclusive: Han Kuo-yu Wears It Too? Lai Ching-te Hosts Tea Gathering for Five Agency Heads—Surprise Gift Is This "Ultra-Popular Battle Garment"
他详细地叙述了那场意外的经过。
Tā xiángxì de xù shù le nà chǎng yìwài de jīngguò.
He gave a detailed description of the accident.
韩国与叙利亚建立外交关系。
Hánguó yǔ Xùlìyà jiànlì wàijiāoguānxì.
South Korea established diplomatic relations with Syria.
详细叙述一下这起事故吧。
Xiángxì xùshù yīxià zhè qǐ shìgù ba.
Describe that accident in detail.
大马士革是叙利亚的首都。
Dàmǎshìgé shì Xùlìyà de shǒudū.
Damascus is Syria's capital.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 又 (again) component
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