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粛: solemn, quietly

Also: softly

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

聿 carries the meaning · 米 is drawn in

11 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

シュクshuku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 自粛じしゅくself-restraint; voluntary restraint
  • 厳粛げんしゅくgrave; solemn; serious
  • 静粛せいしゅくsilent
  • 粛清しゅくせい(political) purge
  • 粛正しゅくせいstrict crackdown on and elimination of…
  • 粛軍しゅくぐんarmy purge

Also read スク, つつしむ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Stand straight! Imagine a single, strong pillar or a walking staff that holds everything together.”
More in the 丨 vertical stroke story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
聿

Also built on 聿

米

Also built on rice (米)

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Also read シュク

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
粛 solemn · 聿
vs断 severance · 斤
粛 has 聿 where 断 has 斤.
In ChineseSimplified 肃 · traditional 肅 · sù

Three different forms: Japanese 粛, simplified 肃, traditional 肅.

Simplified
肃 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
肅 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin sù most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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