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術

shù, zhú

art, skill

Original meaning: 

city road

Phonosemantic compound. 行 represents the meaning and 朮 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "city road". The meaning later shifted to "way", "method", "technique", and "skill".

Components
行 meaning component

行  Meaning component

xíng, háng

  

walk

朮 sound component

朮  Sound component

shù, zhú

  

glutinous millet

Evolution

術 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
術 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
術 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

术 (術) 

shù

art, skill, special feat; method, technique; method; technique

术 (術) 

zhú

various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea

Most common words with 術
Freq.
Word
Meaning

技术

technology

手术

surgery

艺术

art

术

method

艺术家

artist

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə-lut

zywit

shù

technique


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 57.9369% of movies

522nd most common character in movies

328th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

术

Unicode

U+8853

Shuowen

“術，邑中道也。从行，术聲。”


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