數
數 — su, sak
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 셈 수, 자주 삭
- Romanization
- su, sak
- English
- number; several; count; fate
- Mandarin
- shù
- Japanese on'yomi
- シュ, サク, ス, ソク, ショ, ショク, ソ, シュク
- Japanese kun'yomi
- かず かぞ.える しばしば せ.める わずらわ.しい
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 15
- Variant forms
- 数
- Radical
- 攴 (66, 11 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 婁(루)
- Unicode
- U+6578
Parts that make up 數
- 婁 끌 루sound 본래 뜻이 분명하지 않다‘루’ 계열의 소리
- 攵 variant of 攴 손에 든 막대기치고 때려 시키는 일. 오른쪽에서 攵 으로 쓴다
How 數 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 數 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 婁, 攴.
Korean example words with 數
- 수삭數朔 Korean gloss: 몇 달
- 동수同數 Korean gloss: 같은 수
- 연수年數 Korean gloss: 해의 수
- 소수少數 Korean gloss: 적은 수효
- 수월數月 Korean gloss: 두서너 달
- 수일數日 Korean gloss: 두서너 날
- 수차數次 Korean gloss: 여러 차례
- 수효數爻 Korean gloss: 낱낱의 수
- 액수額數 Korean gloss: 사람의 수
- 층수層數 Korean gloss: 층의 수효
- 호수戶數 Korean gloss: 집의 수효
- 다수多數 Korean gloss: 수효가 많음
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Characters sharing the phonetic 婁
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 “루” in Korean.
Other hanja read “수”
Other hanja with radical 攴
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences