倏

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倏 U+500F, 倏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-500F
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倐 →

Translingual

Han character

倏 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人中人大 (OLOK), four-corner 27234, composition ⿲亻丨⿱夂犬(GJK) or ⿲亻丨⿱攵犬(HT))

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 107, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 762
  • Dae Jaweon: page 229, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 175, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+500F

Chinese

trad. 倏
simp. # 倏
alternative forms 倐
儵
翛
𤟏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倏
s07187
Transcribed ancient scripts
L25398
L25399
L25400
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).
Characters in the same phonetic series (攸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絛 *l̥ʰɯːw
窱 *ʔl'ɯːwʔ, *l̥ʰɯːws
蓧 *l̥ʰɯːw, *l'ɯːwɢ
條 *l'ɯːw
鋚 *l'ɯːw
鞗 *l'ɯːw
樤 *l'ɯːw
鰷 *l'ɯːw
莜 *l'ɯːws
翛 *slɯːw, *hljɯwɢ
筱 *slɯːwʔ
篠 *slɯːwʔ
修 *slɯw
脩 *slɯw
樇 *slɯw
滫 *slɯwʔ
悠 *lɯw
攸 *lɯw
浟 *lɯw
蓨 *l̥ʰɯːwɢ
滌 *l'ɯːwɢ
儵 *hljɯwɢ
倐 *hljɯwɢ
倏 *hljɯwɢ
虪 *hljɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hljɯwɢ) : phonetic 攸 (OC *lɯw) + semantic 犬

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 倏
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 屋 (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 式竹切
Baxter syuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɕɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɕiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɕiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɕuwk̚/
Li
Rong 		/ɕiuk̚/
Wang
Li 		/ɕĭuk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɕi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		suk1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倏
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dzyuwk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*liwk/
English rapid, sudden

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 倏
Reading # 1/1
No. 15487
Phonetic
component 		攸
Rime
group 		覺
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		叔
Old
Chinese 		/*hljɯwɢ/
Notes 原訛倐依説文集韻改

Definitions

倏

  1. sudden; abrupt
  2. suddenly; abruptly; hastily

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

倏

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): しゅく (shuku)
  • Kun: たちまち (tachimachi)

Korean

Hanja

倏 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune–Reischauer suk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倏: Hán Nôm readings: thúc

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