淑
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(bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable; (used in given names); Taiwan pr. [shu2]
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 水 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 淑
- Common rank
- #3,277
- Unicode
- U+6DD1
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
graceful · Heisig RSH #1894
水 water + 叔 uncle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 淑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淑人君子 | virtuous gentleman (idiom) | |
| 淑女车 | ladies bicycle | |
| 遇人不淑 | (idiom) to be in a relationship with or marry a bad person; (idiom) to associate with a ba… | |
| 淑世 | to make the world a better place | |
| 淑女 | wise and virtuous woman; lady | |
| 周梁淑怡 | Selina Chow (Chow Liang Shuk-yee) (1945-), Hong Kong politician | |
| 淑静 | gentle; tender | |
| 贤淑 | (of a woman) virtuous | |
| 娴淑 | ladylike |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 叔 — compare how they read.