寿 · shòu
old age, long life; lifespan
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
old age, long life; lifespan
- Mandarin
- shòu
- Cantonese
- sau6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 寿 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ジュ シュウ ス ことぶき いのちながい ことほぎ ひさしい ことぶく ことほぐKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 수
- Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5BFF
- Radical
- 寸 · 41
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 寿
Character connections
History & distinctions
Related forms
壽
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- shòu
- kCantonese
- sau6
- kDefinition
- old age, long life; lifespan
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 41.4
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+58FD U+5BFF
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5BFF
- kTGH
- 2013:599
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- shòu 1060.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- shòu 339.060
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- shòu(20)
Reference desk
- Kangxi positions
- 0294.021
- Cangjie
- QKDI
- Four-corner
- 5034.0 5004.0