熟

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 孰 + semantic 灬 (“fire”) – cooked with fire.

Han character

熟 (radical 86 火+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈火 (YIF), four-corner 0533₁)

1. well-cooked
2. ripe
3. familiar with

Related characters

• 塾

See also

• 熱

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

熟 (Yale suk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

熟 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: じゅく (juku)
• Kun: うれる (ureru), にる (niru), つらつら (tsuratsura), つくづく (tsukudzuku)

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Korean

Hanja

熟 (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune-Reischauer suk, Yale swuk)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

熟 (pinyin shóu (shou2); shú (shu2), Wade-Giles shou²; shu²)

Compounds

• 熟悉 (to be familiar, to know well; familiar)
• 熟人
• 熟知

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Vietnamese

Han character

熟 (thục)