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U+4FEE, 修
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FEE

[U+4FED]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4FEF]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 9, +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 (G) or (HTJKV))

Usage notes

  • Note that in Korean, Japanese and Traditional Chinese scripts, this character is written with ten strokes (as seen in the Kangxi Dictionary) rather than nine as in Simplified. The difference is in the component vs. .

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 106, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 721
  • Dae Jaweon: page 225, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 159, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4FEE
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 修, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *slɯw): phonetic (OC *lɯw) + semantic .

Pronunciation



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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. to decorate; to embellish
  2. to repair; to mend
  3. to build; to construct
    鐵路铁路   xiū tiělù   to build a railway
  4. to revise; to write; to compile
  5. (education) to study; to cultivate; to take a course
  6. (obsolete) tall; slim; long
  7. short for 修正主義修正主义 (xiūzhèng zhǔyì) revisionism
  8. a surname

Synonyms

  • (to build):
  • (to repair):

Compounds

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 266.
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Japanese

Kanji

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. discipline
  2. conduct oneself well
  3. study
  4. master

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

(おさむ) (Osamu) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 닦을 (dakkeul su))

  1. hanja form? of (discipline)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: tu
: Nôm readings: tu

Verb

  1. chữ Hán form of tu ((intransitive) to isolate oneself from other people to follow rules in a philosophy or religion)

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