殊
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(literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass; (bound form) different; (bound form) special; remarkable; (literary) very; extremely
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 歹 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 殊
- Common rank
- #2,250
- Unicode
- U+6B8A
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Formation & memory
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Words with 殊
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 特殊关系 | special relation | |
| 特殊护理 | special care; intensive nursing | |
| 特殊教育 | special education; special-needs education | |
| 殊不知 | little imagined; scarcely realized | |
| 特殊儿童 | child with special needs; gifted child | |
| 特殊函数 | special functions (math.) | |
| 文殊师利菩萨 | Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness | |
| 同途殊归 | same road out, different ones back | |
| 殊途同归 | different routes to the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same… | |
| 文殊 | Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness | |
| 特殊 | special; particular; unusual; extraordinary | |
| 殊色 | beautiful girl; a beauty | |
| 苏曼殊 | Su Manshu (1884-1918), Chinese writer, journalist, Buddhist monk, participant in the revol… | |
| 殊死 | to behead; capital punishment; desperate struggle; life-and-death | |
| 文殊菩萨 | Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness | |
| 殊异 | entirely different; quite separate | |
| 殊乡 | foreign land; faraway land | |
| 众寡悬殊 | (idiom) a great disparity in numerical strength | |
| 殊域周咨录 | Ming dynasty record (1574) of exploration and foreign relations | |
| 殊致 | (literary) mixed; inconsistent; (literary) spectacular scenery |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 朱 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 朱 sound part | cinnabar, vermilion; surname | |
| 珠 | gem, jewel, pearl, precious stone | |
| 诛 | to execute, to kill; to punish | |
| 蛛 | spider | |
| 株 | root, stump; measure word for trees | |
| 侏 | small, tiny; dwarf | |
| 茱 | dogwood | |
| 铢 | a unit of weight, about 1 gram | |
| 洙 | a river in Shandong province | |
| 邾 | an ancient feudal state in Shandong province | |
| 姝 | beautiful, charming, gorgeous; pretty girl |