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修

See also: 脩
修 U+4FEE, 修
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FEE
← 俭
[U+4FED] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 俯 →
[U+4FEF]

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

修 (radical 9, 人+7 in Chinese, 人+8 in Japanese, 9 strokes in Chinese, 10 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人中人竹 (OLOH), four-corner 28222, composition ⿰⿰亻丨⿱夂彡 (G) or ⿰⿰亻丨㣊 (TJKV))

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 106, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 721
  • Dae Jaweon: page 225, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 159, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4FEE

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 修
variant forms 俢
㣊 second round simplified

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 修
Small seal script
 

s06485

Transcribed ancient scripts
 

L33637

 

L33638

 

L33639

 

L33640

 

L33641

 

L11965

 

L11966

 

L11967

 

L11968

 

L11969

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 (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu 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 *slɯw): 攸 + 彡.

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 修
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息流切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/sɨu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/siu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/siəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/suw/
Li
Rong 		/siu/
Wang
Li 		/sĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/si̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiū
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 修
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xiū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sjuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s-liw/
English adorn

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 修
Reading # 1/1
No. 15475
Phonetic
component 		攸
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		脩
Old
Chinese 		/*slɯw/

DefinitionsEdit

修

  1. to decorate, to embellish
  2. to repair, to mend
  3. to study, to cultivate
  4. † tall; slim

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 修

JapaneseEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

修 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

修 (tu, khương)

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