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淑

shū

good

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 叔 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

叔 sound component

叔  Sound component

shū

  

uncle

Evolution

淑 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
淑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
淑 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
淑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

淑  

shū

good, pure, virtuous, charming; warm and virtuous; (used in given names); Taiwan pr. [shú]

Most common words with 淑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

淑女

lady

淑

warm and virtuous

贤淑

(of a woman) virtuous

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]iwk

dzyuwk

shū

fine, good


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.9793% of movies

2481st most common character in movies

2643rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DD1

Shuowen

“淑，清湛也。从水，叔聲。”


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