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庶

庶

See also: 庻

Translingual

Han character

庶 (radical 53 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿火 (ITF), four-corner 00237, composition ⿸广⿱廿灬)

  1. numerous, various
  2. multitude

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 347, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9373
  • Dae Jaweon: page 657, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 886, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5EB6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 庶

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (庶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
褯 *zljaːɡs
遮 *tjaː
蔗 *tjaːɡs
鷓 *tjaːɡs
樜 *tjaːɡs, *hljaɡs
蟅 *tjaːɡs, *tjaːɡ
嗻 *tjaːɡs
鍍 *daː, *daːɡs
度 *daːɡs, *daːɡ
渡 *daːɡs
庶 *hljaɡs
剫 *daːɡ
踱 *daːɡ
喥 *daːɡ
謶 *tjaɡ
席 *ljaːɡ
蓆 *ljaːɡ
墌 *tjaːɡ
摭 *tjaːɡ
蹠 *tjaːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 庶
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 商署切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕɨʌH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiɔH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiɔH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕɨə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiɔH/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭoH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯woH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 庶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syoH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-tak-s/
English numerous; commoner

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 庶
Reading # 1/1
No. 11905
Phonetic
component		 庶
Rime
group		 暮
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 恕
Old
Chinese		 /*hljaɡs/
Notes 甲金文火上爲石，石亦聲，本炙初文

Definitions

庶

  1. numerous; common people (or populace); born of a concubine

Japanese

Kanji

庶

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. commoner

Readings

Korean

Hanja

庶 • ‎(seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

庶 (thứ)

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