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叔

叔

叔 U+53D4, 叔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53D4
← 叓
[U+53D3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 叕 →
[U+53D5]

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
椒 *ʔsliw
茮 *ʔsliw
踧 *l'ɯːwɢ, *ʔslɯwɢ
蔋 *l'ɯːwɢ
惄 *nɯːwɢ
戚 *sʰlɯːwɢ
慼 *sʰlɯːwɢ
鏚 *sʰlɯːwɢ
慽 *sʰlɯːwɢ
磩 *sʰlɯːwɢ
寂 *zlɯːwɢ
嘁 *ʔsluːb
墄 *sʰlɯːɡ
摵 *srɯːɡ, *ʔslɯwɢ, *srɯwɢ
督 *ʔl'uːwɢ
錖 *ʔl'uːwɢ
裻 *ʔl'uːwɢ, *sluːwɢ
傶 *ʔslɯːwɢ
蹙 *ʔslɯwɢ
槭 *ʔslɯwɢ
縬 *ʔslɯwɢ, *ʔsrɯwɢ
顣 *ʔslɯwɢ
敊 *l̥ʰɯwɢ
琡 *ʔljɯwɢ, *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
俶 *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
埱 *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
淑 *ɦljɯwɢ
婌 *ɦljɯwɢ
尗 *hljɯwɢ
叔 *hljɯwɢ
掓 *hljɯwɢ
菽 *hljɯwɢ
鮛 *hljɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljɯwɢ) : semantic 又 ‎(“hand”) + phonetic 尗 ‎(OC *hljɯwɢ) – a hand husking peas.

Han character

叔 (radical 29 又+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜火水 (YFE), four-corner 27940, composition ⿰尗又)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 165, character 42
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3154
  • Dae Jaweon: page 376, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 396, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+53D4

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 叔

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 叔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 屋 (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 式竹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕuwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiuk̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 叔 叔
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shū shū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syuwk › ‹ syuwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-tiwk/ /*s-tiwk/
English gather, harvest 3rd of 4 brothers

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 叔
Reading # 1/1
No. 11759
Phonetic
component		 尗
Rime
group		 覺
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 叔
Old
Chinese		 /*hljɯwɢ/

Definitions

叔

  1. father's younger brother: uncle

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 叔 – see 掓.
(This character, 叔, is a variant form of 掓.)

References

Japanese

Kanji

叔

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. uncle
  2. youth

Readings

Korean

Hanja

叔 • ‎(suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune-Reischauer suk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

叔 (thúc)

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