淑

淑 U+6DD1, 淑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DD1 ← 淐 [U+6DD0] CJK Unified Ideographs 淒 → [U+6DD2]

Translingual

Han character

淑 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, Cangjie input 水卜火水 (EYFE), four-corner 3714₀, composition ⿰氵叔)

Derived characters

• 蔋, 𫳺

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 629, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17634
• Dae Jaweon: page 1031, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1647, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6DD1

Chinese

simp. and trad.		淑
alternative forms		𭂑 俶 good; beautiful

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 淑
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (尗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
椒	*ʔsliw
茮	*ʔsliw
踧	*l'ɯːwɢ, *ʔslɯwɢ
蔋	*l'ɯːwɢ
惄	*nɯːwɢ
戚	*sʰlɯːwɢ
慼	*sʰlɯːwɢ
鏚	*sʰlɯːwɢ
慽	*sʰlɯːwɢ
磩	*sʰlɯːwɢ
寂	*zlɯːwɢ
嘁	*ʔsluːb
墄	*sʰlɯːɡ
摵	*srɯːɡ, *ʔslɯwɢ, *srɯwɢ
督	*ʔl'uːwɢ
錖	*ʔl'uːwɢ
裻	*ʔl'uːwɢ, *sluːwɢ
傶	*ʔslɯːwɢ
蹙	*ʔslɯwɢ
槭	*ʔslɯwɢ
縬	*ʔslɯwɢ, *ʔsrɯwɢ
顣	*ʔslɯwɢ
敊	*l̥ʰɯwɢ
琡	*ʔljɯwɢ, *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
俶	*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
埱	*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
淑	*ɦljɯwɢ
婌	*ɦljɯwɢ
尗	*hljɯwɢ
叔	*hljɯwɢ
掓	*hljɯwɢ
菽	*hljɯwɢ
鮛	*hljɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɦljɯwɢ): semantic 氵 + phonetic 叔 (OC *hljɯwɢ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū, shú

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ, ㄕㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): suk⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): siuk / suk

  (Hailu, HRS): shug

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sug⁵

• Eastern Min (BUC): sé̤ṳk
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeh⁶ / syoeh⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sog⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸zoq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shu
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹
    • Yale: shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shú
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shú
    • Wade–Giles: shu²
    • Yale: shú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shwu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: suk⁶
    • Yale: suhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siuk / suk
    • Hakka Romanization System: xiug^ˋ / sug^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xiug⁵ / sug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯uk̚²/, /suk̚²/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: shug
    • Sinological IPA: /ʃuk⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /sʊk̚¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sé̤ṳk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /søyʔ²⁴/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: soeh⁶
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: se̤h
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬœʔ²¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: syoeh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok
    • Tâi-lô: siok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siog
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /siɔk̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔk̚⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔk̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /siɔk̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sog⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sok
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sok̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸zoq
    • MiniDict: zoh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵zoq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zoʔ¹²/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyuwk

Rime
Character	淑
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
Baxter	dzyuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑuwk̚/
Li Rong	/ʑiuk̚/
Wang Li	/ʑĭuk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	suk6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]iwk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljɯwɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	淑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]iwk/
English	fine, good
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	淑
Reading #	1/1
No.	11756
Phonetic component	尗
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	熟
Old Chinese	/*ɦljɯwɢ/

Definitions

淑

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) limpid; clear; pure
2. kind-hearted; virtuous; good
3. charming; beautiful; fair

Compounds

• 不淑
• 名門淑女 / 名门淑女 (míngménshūnǚ)
• 嫻淑 / 娴淑
• 朱淑真
• 毛施淑姿
• 淑世
• 淑人 (shúrén)
• 淑人君子
• 淑化
• 淑問 / 淑问
• 淑善君子 (shū shàn jūnzǐ)
• 淑均 (shūjūn)
• 淑女 (shūnǚ)
• 淑姿
• 淑媛
• 淑尤
• 淑弟
• 淑德
• 淑性
• 淑慎
• 淑慝殊途
• 淑懿
• 淑教流徽
• 淑景
• 淑氣 / 淑气
• 淑清
• 淑範 / 淑范
• 淑美
• 淑胤
• 淑郁
• 私淑
• 窈窕淑女 (yǎotiǎoshūnǚ)
• 貞懿賢淑 / 贞懿贤淑
• 貞淑 / 贞淑 (zhēnshū)
• 賢淑 / 贤淑 (xiánshū)
• 遇人不淑 (yùrénbùshū)

References

• “淑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “淑”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 213.

Japanese

Kanji

淑

(Jōyō kanji)

1. graceful
2. gentle
3. pure

Readings

• Go-on: じゅく (juku)
• Kan-on: しゅく (shuku, Jōyō)
• Kun: しとやか (shitoyaka, 淑やか)、よい (yoi, 淑い)
• Nanori: すく (suku)、とし (toshi)、よし (yoshi)

Korean

Hanja

淑 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune–Reischauer suk, Yale swuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

淑: Hán Nôm readings: thục

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References

• Nom Foundation