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  *書* | 書* | *書
book / letter / document / CL: , 冊|册, / to write
HSK 1
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  *樹* | 樹* | *樹
tree / CL: / to cultivate / to set up
HSK 1
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  *數* | 數* | *數
to count / to count as; to regard as / to enumerate; to list
HSK 2
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  *熟* | 熟* | *熟
ripe; mature / thoroughly cooked; done / familiar; acquainted / experienced; skilled / (of sleep etc) deep; profound / also pr. [shou2]
HSK 2
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  *束* | 束* | *束
to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control
HSK 3
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  *輸* | 輸* | *輸
to lose; to be beaten / (bound form) to transport / (literary) to donate; to contribute / (coll.) to enter (a password)
HSK 3
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  *屬* | 屬* | *屬
category / genus (taxonomy) / family members / dependents / to belong to / subordinate to / affiliated with / be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals) / to be / to prove to be / to constitute
HSK 3
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  *鼠* | 鼠* | *鼠
(bound form) rat; mouse
HSK 5
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  *贖* | 贖* | *贖
to redeem / to ransom
HSK 7-9
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  *梳* | 梳* | *梳
to comb / (bound form) a comb
HSK 7-9
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  *竪* | 竪* | *竪
variant of 豎|竖
HSK 7-9
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  *豎* | 豎* | *豎
to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
HSK 7-9
lit. Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 and Cao Wei 曹魏 cannot coexist (idiom) / fig. two enemies cannot live under the same sky / (former KMT slogan against CCP) "gentlemen and thieves cannot coexist"
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  *數* | 數* | *數
number; figure / several; a few
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  *癙* | 癙* | *癙
illness caused by worry
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  *書* | 書* | *書
abbr. for 書經|书经
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  *署* | 署* | *署
office / bureau / (Taiwan pr. [shu4]) to sign / to arrange
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  *舒* | 舒* | *舒
surname Shu
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  *舒* | 舒* | *舒
to stretch / to unfold / to relax / leisurely
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  *疏* | 疏* | *疏
surname Shu
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  *疏* | 疏* | *疏
to dredge / to clear away obstruction / thin / sparse / scanty / distant (relation) / not close / to neglect / negligent / to present a memorial to the Emperor / commentary / annotation
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  *述* | 述* | *述
(bound form) to state; to tell; to narrate; to relate
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  *薯* | 薯* | *薯
potato / yam
the Qinling plank road to Shu, a historical mountain road from Shaanxi to Sichuan
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  *殊* | 殊* | *殊
(literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass / (bound form) different / (bound form) special; remarkable / (literary) very; extremely
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  *暑* | 暑* | *暑
heat / hot weather / summer heat
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  *蔬* | 蔬* | *蔬
vegetables
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  *術* | 術* | *術
method / technique
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  *菽* | 菽* | *菽
legumes (peas and beans)
Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius / (fig.) a mastermind
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  *束* | 束* | *束
surname Shu
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  *叔* | 叔* | *叔
uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
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  *丨* | 丨* | *丨
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔
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  *蜀* | 蜀* | *蜀
short name for Sichuan 四川 province / one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国 after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉, situated around what is now Sichuan province
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  *樞* | 樞* | *樞
(bound form) hinge; pivot (usu. fig.)
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  *紓* | 紓* | *紓
abundant / ample / at ease / relaxed / to free from / to relieve
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  *墅* | 墅* | *墅
villa
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  *孰* | 孰* | *孰
who / which / what
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  *尌* | 尌* | *尌
standing up / to stand (something) up
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  *戍* | 戍* | *戍
garrison
Zi Wei Dou Shu, a form of Chinese fortune-telling
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  *儵* | 儵* | *儵
variant of
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  *俞* | 俞* | *俞
variant of
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  *疋* | 疋* | *疋
foot
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  *澍* | 澍* | *澍
moisture / timely rain
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  *摴* | 摴* | *摴
dice / gambling / to release
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei as villains
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  *恕* | 恕* | *恕
to forgive
Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / Taiwan pr. [Liu2 Chan2]
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  *殳* | 殳* | *殳
surname Shu
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  *殳* | 殳* | *殳
bamboo or wooden spear / Kangxi radical 79, occurring in , , 殺|杀 etc
Shu Han (c. 200-263), Liu Bei's kingdom in Sichuan during the Three Kingdoms, claiming legitimacy as successor of Han
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  *漱* | 漱* | *漱
to rinse one's mouth with water / to gargle
courtesy name of Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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  *庶* | 庶* | *庶
(bound form) ordinary; numerous / (bound form) pertaining to a concubine (contrasted with )
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  *姝* | 姝* | *姝
pretty woman
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  *綀* | 綀* | *綀
a kind of sackcloth
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  *塾* | 塾* | *塾
private school
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  *杸* | 杸* | *杸
to kill / a spear
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  *糬* | 糬* | *糬
used in 麻糬
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  *陎* | 陎* | *陎
surname Shu / (name of an ancient place)
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  *黍* | 黍* | *黍
broomcorn millet / glutinous millet
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  *倏* | 倏* | *倏
sudden / abrupt / Taiwan pr. [shu4]
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  *裋* | 裋* | *裋
used in 裋褐
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  *襡* | 襡* | *襡
short skirt or tunic
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  *鉥* | 鉥* | *鉥
acmite
A-dou, nickname of Liu Shan 劉禪|刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / (fig.) weak and inept person
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  *钃* | 钃* | *钃
metal
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  *毹* | 毹* | *毹
rug
courtesy name of Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
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  *秫* | 秫* | *秫
broomcorn millet (Panicum spp.) / Panicum italicum / glutinous millet
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  *庻* | 庻* | *庻
old variant of
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  *翛* | 翛* | *翛
hastiness
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  *抒* | 抒* | *抒
to express / to give expression to / variant of 紓|纾 / to relieve
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  *藷* | 藷* | *藷
variant of
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  *尗* | 尗* | *尗
old variant of / old variant of
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  *忬* | 忬* | *忬
old variant of / old variant of 紓|纾
Shu Qi (1976-), Taiwanese actress
Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine
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  *朮* | 朮* | *朮
variant of 術|术
Huang Zhong (-220), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, portrayed as an old fighter
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  *倐* | 倐* | *倐
variant of
Uncle Tom's Cabin, translated and adapted by Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
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  *踈* | 踈* | *踈
variant of
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  *疎* | 疎* | *疎
variant of
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  *潄* | 潄* | *潄
variant of
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  *鼡* | 鼡* | *鼡
variant of
Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty
Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白香詞譜|白香词谱
the Prime Minister of Shu (i.e. Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮)
Sichuan / the state of Shu in Sichuan at different periods / the Shu Han dynasty (214-263) of Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 during the Three Kingdoms
Zhao Yun (-229), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Kusha-shū (Japanese Buddhism school)
"he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫)
Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty / posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama
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  *攄* | 攄* | *攄
set forth / to spread
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  *曙* | 曙* | *曙
(bound form) daybreak; dawn / Taiwan pr. [shu4]
Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into Classical Chinese
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  *橾* | 橾* | *橾
the hole in the center of a wheel accommodating the axle (archaic)
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  *沭* | 沭* | *沭
river in Shandong

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