熟

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熟 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈火 (YIF), four-corner 0533₁, composition ⿱孰灬)

• 𰃁, 𤒙

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 680, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19332
• Dae Jaweon: page 1091, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2231, character 3
• Unihan data for U+719F

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djɯwɢ) : phonetic 孰 (OC *djɯwɢ, “cooked; ripe”) + semantic 灬 (“fire”) – cooked with fire.

Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Proto-Kiranti (*tʰok ~ tʰuk, "ripen; cooked") (Schuessler, 2007)

熟

1. (of fruits, etc.) ripe

   香蕉熟了沒？／香蕉熟了没？  ―  Xiāngjiāo shóu le méi?  ―  Have the bananas ripened?

2. (of cooked dishes, etc.) cooked; done

   麵條不要煮太熟。 [MSC, trad.]
   面条不要煮太熟。 [MSC, simp.]

   Miàntiáo bùyào zhǔ tài shóu. [Pinyin]

   Do not overcook the noodles.

3. processed

   熟鐵／熟铁  ―  shútiě  ―  wrought iron

4. familiar with; well-acquainted with

   我跟他不太熟。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Wǒ gēn tā bù tài shóu. [Pinyin]

   I'm not that well-acquainted with him/her.

   你同佢熟唔熟㗎？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   nei⁵ tung⁴ keoi⁵ suk⁶ m⁴ suk⁶ gaa³? [Jyutping]

   Are you well-acquainted with him/her?

   我唔係太熟呢頭啲路。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我唔系太熟呢头啲路。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ m⁴ hai⁶ taai³ suk⁶ ni¹ tau⁴ di¹ lou⁶. [Jyutping]

   I'm not familiar with the roads in this area.

5. practiced

   把曲子練熟／把曲子练熟  ―  bǎ qǔzi liàn shú  ―  to practise this piece well

6. sound; deep

   深思熟慮／深思熟虑  ―  shēnsīshúlǜ  ―  to deliberate carefully

   貓咪睡得很熟。／猫咪睡得很熟。  ―  Māomī shuì de hěn shú.  ―  The cat is sleeping soundly.

7. (historical ethnography) civilized; settled

   熟黎  ―  shú lí  ―  civilized Li

8. (Hokkien) crop harvest

   秋熟 [Hokkien]  ―  chhiu se̍k [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  autumn harvest

• (familiar):

• (practiced):

• (deep):

• (antonym(s) of “civilized”): 生 (shēng)

• → Thai: สุก (sùk)
• → Zhuang: sug

• “熟”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Southern Min

• “Entry #11221”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. boil
2. ripen
3. a complete state

• Go-on: じゅく (juku, Jōyō)^{←じゆく (zyuku, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅく (shuku)^{←しゆく (syuku, historical)}
• Kun: うれる (ureru, 熟れる, Jōyō)、こなす (konasu, 熟す)、にる (niru, 熟る)、つらつら (tsuratsura, 熟)、つくづく (tsukuzuku, 熟)

熟 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune–Reischauer suk, Yale swuk)

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熟: Hán Nôm readings: thục

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