Chinese Character Wiki

恕

shù

forgive

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 如 represents the sound.

Components
心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

如 sound component

如  Sound component

rú

  

be like

Evolution

恕 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
恕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
恕 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
恕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

恕  

shù

forgive, excuse, show mercy; to forgive

Most common words with 恕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恕

to forgive

宽恕

to forgive

饶恕

to forgive

恕罪

please forgive me

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n̥a-s

syoH

shù

indulgent


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.4551% of movies

1802nd most common character in movies

2314th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6055

Shuowen

“恕，仁也。从心，如聲。，古文省。”


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