倏

倏	U+500F, 倏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-500F

← 倎
[U+500E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

倐 →
[U+5010]

Translingual

Han character

倏 (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: page 107, character 22

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 762

Dae Jaweon: page 229, character 2

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 175, character 6

Unihan data for U+500F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		倏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倏

**Small seal script**
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, OC *hljɯwɢ) : 攸 + 犬.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shū (shu¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): suk¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shū
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
  - Wade–Giles: shu¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: suk¹
  - Yale: sūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: sug¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚⁵/

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*liwk/
(Zhengzhang): /*hljɯwɢ/

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. [t] 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

sudden, abrupt
hastily, suddenly, abruptly

Japanese

Kanji

倏

(uncommon “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 (thúc)

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