脩

脩 · xiū

dried meat (used as teachers payment in ancient times)

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
xiū
Cantonese
sau1
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

dried meat (used as teachers payment in ancient times)

Dictionary definitions & readings

脩 xiū · variant of 修 xiū

脩 xiū · dried meat presented by pupils to their teacher at their first meeting (in ancient times); dried; withered

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Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
10176.040:xiū,yǒu,tiáo,xiāo Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
1297.010:xiū Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
411.020:xiū Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
xiū粵sau1 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
シュウ ユウ チョウ ショウ シュ ウ おさめる ながい ほじし Source property ↗
Korean · Hangul
수:0N Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
息流 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
OLOB Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
2822.7 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
0984.080 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
205.43 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
1077e Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+8129
Radical
肉 · 130
Strokes
10
Residual strokes
7
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 3 · #7015

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

11 strokes
脩
Strokes
11
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

11 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
sjuw · 息流 · 流開三平尤心 · #994

PHONO-ML, source line 7857; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
1097.601
kCowles
3605
kDaeJaweon
1436.210
kFennIndex
187.02
kGSR
1077e
kHanYu
10176.040
kIRGDaeJaweon
1436.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10176.040
kIRGKangXi
0984.080
kKangXi
0984.080
kKarlgren
257
kLau
2679
kMatthews
2795
kMeyerWempe
2557
kMorohashi
29535 29535:E0102
kNelson
0497
kSBGY
205.43
kSMSZD2003Index
555.19 37.09
kCangjie
OLOB
kFenn
549F
kFourCornerCode
2822.7
kHKGlyph
3311
kMojiJoho
MJ021073 MJ021073:E0102 MJ021072:E0103
kPhonetic
1137 1510
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kIICore
AGTJHKP
kIRG_GSource
GKX-0984.08
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B2E7
kIRG_JSource
J0-667B
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E4A2
kIRG_KSource
K0-623B
kIRG_TSource
T1-5C6C
kRSUnicode
130.7
kTotalStrokes
10
kBigFive
B2E7
kCCCII
215352
kCNS1986
1-5C6C
kCNS1992
1-5C6C
kEACC
215352
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kJis0
7091
kKoreanName
2015
kMainlandTelegraph
5190
kTGH
2013:7015
kTaiwanTelegraph
5190
kXerox
265:336
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6248+130.4.7 V+20197+130.4.6
kCantonese
sau1
kDefinition
dried meat (used as teachers payment in ancient times)
kFanqie
息流
kHangul
수:0N
kHanyuPinyin
10176.040:xiū,yǒu,tiáo,xiāo
kJapanese
シュウ ユウ チョウ ショウ シュ ウ おさめる ながい ほじし
kJapaneseKun
OSAMERU NAGAI
kJapaneseOn
SHUU
kKorean
SWU
kMandarin
xiū
kSMSZD2003Readings
xiū粵sau1
kTGHZ2013
411.020:xiū
kTang
*siou
kXHC1983
1297.010:xiū

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Structure & connections

0.10
3dictionary records using 脩2forms using this shape2attributed sound links
⿲ Three columns
⿱ Above / below

Shape description
亻 beside 丨 beside (夂 above ⺝) · the shape used in China
Source notation ^⿲亻丨⿱夂⺝$(G)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿲亻丨⿱夂⺝$(G)

^⿲亻丨⿱攵⺝$(HJKP)

^⿲亻丨⿱攵⺼$(T)

^⿲亻丨𡕙$(Z)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.