shū
good
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 叔 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]iwk | dzyuwk | shū | fine, good |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.9793% of movies
2481st most common character in movies
2643rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+6DD1 |
Shuowen | “淑,清湛也。从水,叔聲。” |
Sources
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