Kanji

淑

Meaning

graceful gentle and pure

Readings

Kun'yomi

  • しとやか

On'yomi

  • しゅく じょ lady
  • しゅく とく womanly virtues
  • し しゅく looking up to a person as one's own master or model

Practice Writing

Stroke: 1/11

Component Analysis

淑
graceful, gentle, pure
しと.やか, シュク
氵
( 水 ) water, water radical (no. 85)
さんずい
叔
uncle, youth
シュク
尗
younger of brothers, father's younger brother, younger brother of a husband
まめ, シュク
上
above, up
うえ, -うえ, ジョウ
卜
( ト ) divining, fortune-telling, divination or katakana to radical (no. 25)
うらな.う, うらない, ボク
一
one, one radical (no.1)
ひと-, ひと.つ, イチ
小
little, small
ちい.さい, こ-, ショウ
又
or again, furthermore, on the other hand
また, また-, ユウ

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