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述

shù

tell, narrate

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 术 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

术 sound component

术  Sound component

shù, zhú

  

art

Evolution

述 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
述 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

述  

shù

narrate, state, express; to state; to tell; to narrate; to relate

Most common words with 述
Freq.
Word
Meaning

描述

to describe

上述

aforementioned

讲述

to talk about

陈述

an assertion

述

to state

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə-lut

zywit

shù

follow


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 24.3633% of movies

1384th most common character in movies

674th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+8FF0

Shuowen

“述，循也。从辵，朮聲。，籀文从秫。”


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