shú

well-cooked, ripe

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
孰 sound component

  Sound component

shú

  

who? which? what? which one?

灬 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāohuǒ

  

fire

is a component form of .

Evolution

熟 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shú

well-cooked; ripe; familiar with; cooked (of food); ripe (of fruit); mature (of seeds); familiar; skilled; done; also pr. [shóu]

Most common words with 熟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

成熟

mature

熟悉

to know well

familiar

熟人

friend

熟练

practiced

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]uk

dzyuwk

shú

cooked, ripe


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 43.9052% of movies

1045th most common character in movies

1035th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+719F


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