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熟
熟
See also: 熱
Translingual
Han character
熟 (radical 86 火+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈火 (YIF), four-corner 05331, composition ⿱孰灬)
Related characters
- 塾 (shú)
References
- KangXi: page 680, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19332
- Dae Jaweon: page 1091, character 25
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2231, character 3
- Unihan data for U+719F
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
熟 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (孰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 熟 | *djɯwɢ |
| 孰 | *djɯwɢ |
| 塾 | *djɯwɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djɯwɢ) : phonetic 孰 (OC *djɯwɢ) + semantic 灬 (“fire”) – cooked with fire.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, literary; standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˊ
- Wade-Giles: shu2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shwu
- IPA (key): /ʂu³⁵/
-

- (Standard Chinese, colloquial; standard in Taiwan)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄡˊ
- Wade-Giles: shou2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shour
- IPA (key): /ʂoʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, literary; standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: suk6
- Yale: suhk
- Cantonese Pinyin: suk9
- IPA (key): /sʊk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 熟 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing |
/ʂou³⁵/ /ʂu³⁵/ |
| Harbin |
/ʂou²⁴/ /ʂu²⁴/ |
|
| Tianjin |
/ʂou⁴⁵/ /sou⁴⁵/ /su⁴⁵/ |
|
| Jinan | /ʂu⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao |
/ʃu⁴²/ ~了 /ʂu⁴²/ ~悉 |
|
| Zhengzhou | /ʂu⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /fu²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /fv̩²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʂu¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /fu⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi |
/ʂu⁵¹/ /fu⁵¹/ |
|
| Wuhan | /səu²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /su³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /su²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /ʂu³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʂuʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /ʂuəʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /suəʔ⁵⁴/ |
| Pingyao | /suʌʔ⁵³/ | |
| Hohhot |
/suəʔ⁴³/ ~悉 /səu³¹/ 飯~ |
|
| Wu | Shanghai | /zoʔ¹/ |
| Suzhou | /zoʔ³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /zoʔ²/ | |
| Wenzhou | /jɤu²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /su²²/ |
| Tunxi | /ɕiu¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ʂəu²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /ʂəɯ²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /suʔ²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /suk̚⁵/ |
| Taoyuan | /ʃuk̚⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /sok̚²/ |
| Nanning | /suk̚²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /suk̚²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/siɔk̚⁵/ /sik̚⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /syʔ⁵/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /sy⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /sek̚⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/sok̚⁵/ /tiak̚³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 熟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (4) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 殊六切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/d͡ʑɨuk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/d͡ʑiuk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/d͡ʑiuk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/d͡ʑuwk̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʑiuk̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/ʑĭuk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʑi̯uk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
shú |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 熟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
shú |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ dzyuwk › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[d]uk/ |
| English | cooked, ripe |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 熟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11797 |
| Phonetic component |
孰 |
| Rime group |
覺 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
熟 |
| Old Chinese |
/*djɯwɢ/ |
Adjective
熟
- (of fruits, etc.) ripe
- (of cooked dishes, etc.) cooked; done
- familiar with; well acquainted with (a concept, etc.)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
熟
- ripen
Readings
- Goon: じゅく (juku)
- Kan’on: しゅく (shuku) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kun: うれる (ureru), にる (niru), つらつら (tsuratsura) , つくづく (tsukudzuku)
Korean
Hanja
熟 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune-Reischauer suk, Yale swuk)
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Vietnamese
Han character
熟 (thục)
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