庶

庶 U+5EB6, 庶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EB6 ← 庵 [U+5EB5] CJK Unified Ideographs 康 → [U+5EB7]

See also: 庻

Translingual

Han character

庶 (radical 53 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿火 (ITF), four-corner 0023₇, composition ⿸广⿱廿灬)

1. numerous, various
2. multitude

See also

• 度 席

References

• KangXi: page 347, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9373
• Dae Jaweon: page 657, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 886, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5EB6

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		庶

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (庶) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
褯	*zljaːɡs
遮	*tjaː
蔗	*tjaːɡs
鷓	*tjaːɡs
樜	*tjaːɡs, *hljaɡs
蟅	*tjaːɡs, *tjaːɡ
嗻	*tjaːɡs
鍍	*daː, *daːɡs
度	*daːɡs, *daːɡ
渡	*daːɡs
庶	*hljaɡs
剫	*daːɡ
踱	*daːɡ
喥	*daːɡ
謶	*tjaɡ
席	*ljaːɡ
蓆	*ljaːɡ
墌	*tjaːɡ
摭	*tjaːɡ
蹠	*tjaːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shù (shu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu³
• Min Nan (POJ): sìr / sù / sì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu³
    • Yale: syu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu³
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyː³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìr
    • Tâi-lô: sìr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sù
    • Tâi-lô: sù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sux
    • IPA (Taipei): /su¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sì
    • Tâi-lô: sì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: six
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕɨʌ^H/▼

Rime
Character	庶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	商署切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨʌH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɔH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɔH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨə̆H/
Li Rong	/ɕiɔH/
Wang Li	/ɕĭoH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯woH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s-tak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljaɡs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shù
Middle Chinese	‹ syoH ›
Old Chinese	/*s-tak-s/
English	numerous; commoner
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	庶
Reading #	1/1
No.	11905
Phonetic component	庶
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	恕
Old Chinese	/*hljaɡs/
Notes	甲金文火上爲石，石亦聲，本炙初文

Definitions

庶

1. numerous; common people (or populace); born of a concubine

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Japanese

Kanji

庶

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. commoner

Readings

• Goon: しょ (sho)
• Kan’on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: もろもろ (moromoro), こいねがう (koinegau), ちかい (chikai)

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Korean

Hanja

庶 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

庶 (thứ)

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