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English definition old age, long life; lifespan
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system shou4
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) shòu(20)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 zhiòu zhiǒu
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system sau6
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system sau6
Japanese (Kana) シュウ ジュ ことぶき
Japanese (Hepburn) kotobuki hisashii kotoogu
Sino-Japanese ju su shuu juu
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system swu
Hangul 수:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ thọ
Simplified variants 寿
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning) 寿
Unicode radical / stroke count + 11
Unicode total stroke count 14
Cangjie GNMI
Four corner code 4064.1
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 4
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 1, page 483, character 10
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 244, position 4
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 484, position 10
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 1090g
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 334, row 3, position 2
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 324, character 19 page 437, character 17
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 144, character 1
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 66C
page 460, position 5
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 445 1149
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 5846
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 2700
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 3867
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 2656
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 0825
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 1128
Taiwan telegraph code 1108
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 22781 / 58FD


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