修

Stroke order

修 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+7 in Chinese, 人+8 in Japanese, 9 strokes in Chinese, 10 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人中人竹 (OLOH), four-corner 2822₂, composition ⿲亻丨⿱夂彡(G) or ⿲亻丨㣊(HTJKV))

• Note that in Korean, Japanese and Traditional Chinese scripts, this character is written with ten strokes (as seen in the Kangxi Dictionary) rather than nine as in Simplified. The difference is in the component 攵 vs. 夂.

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 106, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 721
• Dae Jaweon: page 225, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 159, character 2
• Unihan data for U+4FEE

Historical forms of the character 修
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s06485 Transcribed ancient scripts L33637 L33638 L33639 L33640 L33641 L11965 L11966 L11967 L11968 L11969
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *slɯw) : phonetic 攸 (OC *lɯw) + semantic 彡.

修

1. to decorate; to embellish
2. to repair; to mend
3. to build; to construct

   修鐵路／修铁路  ―  xiū tiělù  ―  to build a railway

4. to revise; to write; to compile
5. (education) to study; to cultivate; to take a course
6. (obsolete) tall; slim; long

   • 千株老柏，萬節修篁。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     千株老柏，万节修篁。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West, 16^th century CE

     Qiān zhū lǎo bǎi, wàn jié xiū huáng.

     A thousand stalks of old cypress, ten thousand stems of tall bamboo.

7. Short for 修正主義／修正主义 (xiūzhèng zhǔyì). revisionism
8. a surname

• (to build):

• (to repair):

• “修”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “修”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 266.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. discipline
2. conduct oneself well
3. study
4. master

• Go-on: しゅ (shu, Jōyō ^†)、す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: おさめる (osameru, 修める, Jōyō)、おさまる (osamaru, 修まる, Jōyō)
• Nanori: のぶ (nobu)

修(おさむ) • (Osamu) 

1. a male given name

修 (eumhun 닦을 수 (dakkeul su))

1. hanja form^? of 수 (“discipline”)

修: Hán Việt readings: tu
修: Nôm readings: tu

修

chữ Hán form of tu (“(intransitive) to isolate oneself from other people to follow rules in a philosophy or religion”).