塾

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 孰 + semantic 土 (“earth”).

Han character

塾 (radical 32 土+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈土 (YIG), four-corner 0510₄)

1. village school
2. private tutorage

Related characters

• 熟

References

• KangXi: page 237, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5402
• Dae Jaweon: page 475, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 481, character 10
• Unihan data for U+587E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

塾 (Yale suk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

塾 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. cram school

Readings

• On: じゅく (juku)
• Kun: もんべや (mombeya), まなびや (manabiya)

Noun

塾 (hiragana じゅく, romaji juku)

1. cram school

See also

Juku on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Juku

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Korean

Hanja

塾 (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune-Reischauer suk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

塾 (pinyin shú (shu2), Wade-Giles shu²)