卒

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

卒 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜人人十 (YOOJ), four-corner 0040₈, composition ⿱𠅃十)

Derived characters

• 倅 啐 埣 崪 悴 捽 淬 猝 𨔊 晬 椊 㱖 焠 琗 祽 脺 睟 𣖢 碎 稡 䘹 粹 綷 蜶 䚝 誶(谇) 賥 踤 醉 𠁸 𠾹 𡳝 錊 𡦧 𠧆 𩫛 䱣 𡄰 𠫏
• 𡮇 㰵 㲞 𣖛 顇 𣦮
• 𡨧 崒 萃 窣 箤 翠 䯿 瘁 𡇻

Descendants

• 卆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2740
• Dae Jaweon: page 356, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 63, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5352

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卒
Shang	Western Zhou		Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

There were 5 forms of 卒 in Shang oracle bone script (Qiu, 1990; Xuan, 2012):

1. : same as 衣 (“clothes”) (> Western Zhou bronze script );
2. : a crisscross 衣 - a completed clothing;
3. (卒): ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 衣 (“clothes”) with a mark - a completed clothing to be folded (> Warring States bronze script ; Chu slip and silk script );
4. (𧙻): phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : 衣 (“clothes”) + 聿 (OC *b·lud) (hand (又) holding a brush);
5. ,: 𧙻 having 又 omitted.

The brush shape in form (5) was often placed upside down. Later the inverted brush shape was mistaken as 又 and then moved to the top as in Chu slip and silk script (𰠄) to avoid obscuration with 袁 (衣 + 又) (Xuan, 2012).

Etymology 1

From 遭 (OC *ʔsluː, “to meet”) + nominal suffix *-t (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Definitions

卒

1. soldier
2. servant
3. (xiangqi) pawn; private; soldier (on the black side)

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

• (Chinese chess pieces) 帥／帅 (shuài) / 將／将, 仕 (shì) / 士 (shì), 相 / 象 (xiàng), 俥／伡 / 車／车, 傌 / 㐷 / 馬／马 (mǎ), 炮 / 砲／炮, 兵 (bīng) / 卒

Compounds

Descendants

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from ST *(t/d)u-n/t? Related to 瘁/悴, 酋, 傮, 造, 秋?”)

Pronunciation

Definitions

卒

1. to finish
2. to pass away; to die

   卒於1992年／卒于1992年  ―  zú yú 1992 nián  ―  die in 1992

3. at last; finally

Compounds

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

卒

1. Alternative form of 猝 (cù, “hurried; suddenly”)

Compounds

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Definitions

卒

1. Alternative form of 倅 (cuì)

References

• “卒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00437

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: そち (sochi); しゅち (shuchi)
• Kan-on: そつ (sotsu, Jōyō); しゅつ (shutsu)
• Kun: にわかに (niwakani, 卒かに)^{←にはかに (nifakani, 卒かに, historical)}; おわる (owaru, 卒わる)^{←をはる (wofaru, 卒はる, historical)}; おえる (oeru, 卒える)^{←をへる (woferu, 卒へる, historical)}; ついに (tsuini, 卒に)^{←つひに (tufini, 卒に, historical)}

Compounds

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) そ​つ (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

卒(そつ) • (sotsu) 

1. low-ranking soldier
2. Short for 卒業.
3. Short for 卒族.
4. Short for 卒去.

References

Korean

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 卒 (MC tswot, “soldier”).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

卒

Wikisource

卒 (eumhun 군사 졸 (gunsa jol))

1. Hanja form^? of 졸 (“soldier”).

Compounds

Etymology 2

From Middle Chinese 卒 (MC tswit, “finish”).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Hanja

卒 (eumhun 마칠 졸 (machil jol))

1. Hanja form^? of 졸 (“to finish”).
2. Hanja form^? of 졸 (“to pass away; to die”).

Compounds

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

卒: Hán Nôm readings: tốt, chốt, tuất

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