Translingual

Han character

数 (radical 66 攴+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火女人大 (FVOK), four-corner 9844₀, composition ⿰娄攵)

1. number
2. several
3. to count
4. fate

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 474, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13319
• Dae Jaweon: page 827, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1470, character 19
• Unihan data for U+6570

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 數)

1. number

Readings

• Goon: しゅ (shu) (non-Jōyō reading), そく (soku) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: す (su), さく (saku) (non-Jōyō reading), しょく (shoku) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’yōon: すう (sū)
• Kun: かぞえる (数える, kazoeru), かず (kazu), せめる (semeru)

Usage notes

May be used alone with the on-reading すう ‎(sū) to mean number or to form many compounds, such as 数学 (すうがく sūgaku) - mathematics (literally "number study")

Compounds

Noun

数 ‎(hiragana すう, romaji sū)

1. number

Noun

数 ‎(hiragana かず, romaji kazu)

1. number; amount

   人 (ひと)の数 (かず)

   hito no kazu

   number of people

   夜空 (よぞら)の星 (ほし)の数 (かず)

   yozora no hoshi no kazu

   the number of stars in the night sky

Korean

Hanja

数 • ‎(su, chok) (hangeul 수, 촉, revised su, chok, McCune-Reischauer su, ch'ok, Yale swu, chok)

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