数

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 3.2.2 Usage notes 3.2.3 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 5.2.2 Usage notes

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

数 (radical 66 攴+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火女人大 (FVOK))

1. number
2. several, count
3. fate

[edit] References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 474, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13319
• Dae Jaweon: page 827, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1470, character 19
• Unihan data for U+6570

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

数 (traditional 數, jyutping sou3, sou2, Yale sou2, sou3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

数 (hiragana かず, romaji kazu)
数 (hiragana すう, romaji sū)

1. number

[edit] Kanji

数 (grade 2 kanji)

1. number

[edit] Readings

• On: すう (sū), しゅ (shu), す (su)
• Kun: かぞえる (数える, kazoeru), かず (kazu), せめる (semeru)

[edit] Usage notes

May be used alone in on to mean number or to form many compounds, such as 数学 (すうがく sūgaku) - mathematics (literally "number science")

[edit] Compounds

数学 (すうがく, sūgaku): mathematics 数独 (すうどく, sūdoku): sudoku 自然数 (しぜんすう, shizensū): natural number 整数 (せいすう, seisū): integer 実数 (じっすう, jissū): real number

複素数 (ふくそすう, fukusosū): complex number 対数 (たいすう, taisū): logarithm 変数 (へんすう, hensū): variable 定数 (ていすう, teisū): constant 助数詞 (じょすうし, josūshi): counter word

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

数 (hangeul 수, 촉, revised su, chok, McCune-Reischauer su, ch'ok, Yale swu, chok)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

数 (traditional 數, pinyin shǔ (shu3), shù (shu4), shuò (shuo4), cù (cu4), Wade-Giles shu³, shu⁴, shuo⁴, ts'u⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 数学 (shu4 xue2) - mathematics

[edit] Usage notes

When it is used alone and pronounced as shu4, it means "numbers". But if it is pronounced as shu3, it means the action of counting (used as a verb).