修

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 攸 + 彡

Han character

修 (radical 9 人+7 in Chinese, 人+8 in Japanese, in Chinese 9 strokes, in Japanese 10 strokes, cangjie input 人中竹竹 (OLHH), 人中人竹 (OLOH), four-corner 2822₂, composition ⿸攸彡)

1. study
2. repair
3. cultivate

References

• KangXi: page 106, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 721
• Dae Jaweon: page 225, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 159, character 2
• Unihan data for U+4FEE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

修 (jyutping sau1, Yale sau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

修 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: しゅ (shu), す (su)
• Kan’on: しゅう (shū), from しう
• Kun: おさめる (osameru)
• Nanori: のぶ (nobu)

Compounds

• 改修
• 修行
• 修士
• 修整
• 修正
• 修繕
• 修訂
• 修道
• 修復
• 修補
• 修養
• 修羅
• 修理
• 補修

Proper noun

修 (hiragana おさむ, romaji Osamu)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

修 (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Hanzi

修 (pinyin xiū (xiu1), Wade-Giles hsiu¹)

Compounds

• 修版
• 修道
• 修订
• 修复
• 修改
• 修建
• 修理
• 修饰
• 修养
• 修整
• 修正
• 修筑

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Vietnamese

Han character

修 (tu)