熟
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ripe; mature; thoroughly cooked; done; familiar; acquainted; experienced; skilled; (of sleep etc) deep; profound; also pr. [shou2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 火 +11
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 熟
- Common rank
- #834
- Unicode
- U+719F
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Formation & memory
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How 熟 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
灬 meaning “fire” + 孰 sound ()
Components 孰 灬
How to remember it
ripe · Heisig RSH #327
享 enjoy + bottle of pills + cooking fire
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 熟
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人生地不熟 | to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom); in an unfamiliar place without friends or fami… | |
| 人生路不熟 | everything is unfamiliar | |
| 一回生二回熟 | unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom) | |
| 一回生两回熟 | see 一回生二回熟[yi1 hui2 sheng1 er4 hui2 shu2] | |
| 半生不熟 | underripe; half-cooked; (fig.) not mastered (of a technique); clumsy; halting | |
| 人头熟 | to know a lot of people | |
| 一分熟 | rare (of steak) | |
| 熟道儿 | familiar road; well-trodden path | |
| 三分熟 | medium rare (of steak) | |
| 性成熟 | sexual maturity | |
| 自来熟 | (coll.) naturally outgoing with strangers; quick to act like an old acquaintance; sb who h… | |
| 一次生，两次熟 | unfamiliar at first but you get used to it; strangers are first meeting, but soon friends;… | |
| 五分熟 | medium (of steak) | |
| 树上熟 | tree-ripe | |
| 生米做成熟饭 | lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed; It's too la… | |
| 生米熟饭 | abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can'… | |
| 熟人 | acquaintance; friend | |
| 轻车熟路 | lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom); fig. to do sth routinely a… | |
| 熟地 | cultivated land; in Chinese medicine, preparation from rhizome of Chinese foxglove (Rehman… | |
| 熟化 | to cure; to mature |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 孰 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孰 sound part | who? which? what? which one? | |
| 塾 | village school; private tutorage |