Hanja Analyzer
塾

塾 — suk

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
글방 숙
Romanization
suk
English
village school; private tutorage
Mandarin
shú
Japanese on'yomi
ジュク, シュク
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,297 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Radical
土 (32, 11 residual)
Phonetic component
孰(숙)
Unicode
U+587E

Parts that make up 塾

  • 孰 누구 숙sound 누릴 향(享)과 잡을 극(丮)누구. ‘숙’ 계열의 소리
  • 土 흙 토, 뿌리 두 땅 위에 쌓인 흙더미흙·땅과 그 위에 세운 것

How 塾 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 塾 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 孰, 土.

Korean example words with 塾

  • 숙생塾生 Korean gloss: 사숙(私塾)에 다니며 배우는 학생
  • 사숙私塾 Korean gloss: 예전에, 한문을 사사로이 가르치던 곳
  • 숙장塾長 Korean gloss: 의숙(義塾)이나 학숙(學塾)의 우두머리
  • 숙사塾師 Korean gloss: 글방의 스승.
  • 이숙里塾 Korean gloss: 마을 안에 있는 글방.
  • 숙두塾頭 Korean gloss: 군사(軍事)를 강습하던 일.
  • 향숙鄕塾 Korean gloss: 시골이나 고향에 있는 서당.
  • 숙당塾堂 Korean gloss: 글방과 숙소를 겸한 사설 서당.
  • 숙아塾兒 Korean gloss: 사숙(私塾)에서 배우는 어린 학생.
  • 서숙書塾 Korean gloss: 예전에, 한문을 사사로이 가르치던 곳.
  • 숙주塾主 Korean gloss: 의숙(義塾)과 같은 교육 기관의 주인.
  • 의숙義塾 Korean gloss: 공익을 위하여 의연금을 모아 세운 교육 기관.

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 塾

  • 塾じゅく cram school; private tutoring school; juku
  • 塾長じゅくちょう principal of a private school
  • 塾生じゅくせい cram school student; student of a private-tutoring school
  • 私塾しじゅく small private school (esp. for cramming); private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)
  • 入塾にゅうじゅく enrolling at a cram school
  • 義塾ぎじゅく charity school; charitable school
  • 家塾かじゅく government-backed school operated by a scholar out of his home
  • 画塾がじゅく private painting school
  • 塾弁じゅくべん lunch box brought to cram school; cram school lunch box
  • 通塾つうじゅく attending a cram school; commuting to a cram school
  • 退塾たいじゅく leaving a cram school; dropping out of a cram school
  • 塾舎じゅくしゃ cram school building; dormitory for cram school students

Characters sharing the phonetic 孰

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “숙” in Korean.

熟

Other hanja read “숙”

Other hanja with radical 土

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