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倏

倏

倏 U+500F, 倏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-500F
← 倎
[U+500E] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倐 →
[U+5010]

Translingual

Han character

倏 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人中人大 (OLOK), four-corner 27234, composition ⿰⿰亻丨⿱攵犬 (T) or ⿰⿰亻丨⿱夂犬 (GJK))

References

  • KangXi: page 107, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 762
  • Dae Jaweon: page 229, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 175, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+500F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 倏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倏
Large seal script

L25398

L25399

L25400
Small seal script

s07187
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (攸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絛 *l̥ʰɯːw
窱 *ʔl'ɯːwʔ, *l̥ʰɯːws
蓧 *l̥ʰɯːw, *l'ɯːwɢ
條 *l'ɯːw
鋚 *l'ɯːw
鞗 *l'ɯːw
樤 *l'ɯːw
鰷 *l'ɯːw
莜 *l'ɯːws
翛 *slɯːw, *hljɯwɢ
筱 *slɯːwʔ
篠 *slɯːwʔ
修 *slɯw
脩 *slɯw
樇 *slɯw
滫 *slɯwʔ
悠 *lɯw
攸 *lɯw
浟 *lɯw
蓨 *l̥ʰɯːwɢ
滌 *l'ɯːwɢ
儵 *hljɯwɢ
倐 *hljɯwɢ
倏 *hljɯwɢ
虪 *hljɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljɯwɢ) : 攸 + 犬.

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倏
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyuwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*liwk/
English rapid, sudden

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 倏
Reading # 1/1
No. 15487
Phonetic
component		 攸
Rime
group		 覺
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 叔
Old
Chinese		 /*hljɯwɢ/
Notes 原訛倐依説文集韻改

Definitions

倏

  1. sudden, abrupt
  2. hastily, suddenly, abruptly

Japanese

Kanji

倏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

倏 • ‎(suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune-Reischauer suk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倏 (thúc)

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