Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

述: mention, state

Also: speak, relate

JLPT N28 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 朮 gives the sound

8 strokes
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

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

Two readings, and the words that use each

ジュツjutsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 述語じゅつごpredicate [n.]
  • 著述家ちょじゅつかwriter
  • 述懐するじゅっかいするrecollect, reminisce
  • 供述するきょうじゅつするstate, declare
  • 陳述するちんじゅつするtestify, state, depose
  • 詳述するしょうじゅつするexplain in detail
  • 記述するきじゅつするdescribe
  • 口述するこうじゅつするstate verbally
  • 上述するじょうじゅつするstate above

のべるnoberu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 述べるのべるstate, express, mention

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 walk (meaning) + 朮 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 述 (rev. 92162946), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
More in the 辶 road story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
朮

Also built on 朮

述 takes the 朮 family's reading, ジュツ (jutsu).

⻌

Also built on road (⻌)

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Also read ジュツ

1 kanji shares this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shù

Same form: 述 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
述 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
述 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shù 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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