殊
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(literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass; (bound form) different; (bound form) special; remarkable; (literary) very; extremely
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How 殊 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
歹 (semantic, “depraved”) + 朱 (phonetic, zhū)
How to remember it
dissimilar · Heisig RSH #1965
bones + 朱 vermilion
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 朱
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 朱 (zhū) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 朱 sound component | zhū | cinnabar, vermilion; surname |
| 珠 | zhū | gem, jewel, pearl, precious stone |
| 诛 | zhū | to execute, to kill; to punish |
| 蛛 | zhū | spider |
| 株 | zhū | root, stump; measure word for trees |
| 侏 | zhū | small, tiny; dwarf |
| 茱 | zhū | dogwood |
| 铢 | zhū | a unit of weight, about 1 gram |
| 洙 | zhū | a river in Shandong province |
| 邾 | zhū | an ancient feudal state in Shandong province |
| 姝 | shū | beautiful, charming, gorgeous; pretty girl |
Words containing 殊
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 特殊关系 | tè shū guān xì | special relation |
| 特殊护理 | tè shū hù lǐ | special care; intensive nursing |
| 特殊教育 | tè shū jiào yù | special education; special-needs education |
| 殊不知 | shū bù zhī | little imagined; scarcely realized |
| 特殊儿童 | tè shū ér tóng | child with special needs; gifted child |
| 特殊函数 | tè shū hán shù | special functions (math.) |
| 文殊师利菩萨 | Wén shū shī lì Pú sà | Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness |
| 同途殊归 | tóng tú shū guī | same road out, different ones back |
| 殊途同归 | shū tú tóng guī | different routes to the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same… |
| 文殊 | Wén shū | Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness |
| 特殊 | tè shū | special; particular; unusual; extraordinary |
| 殊色 | shū sè | beautiful girl; a beauty |
| 苏曼殊 | Sū Màn shū | Su Manshu (1884-1918), Chinese writer, journalist, Buddhist monk, participant in the revol… |
| 殊死 | shū sǐ | to behead; capital punishment; desperate struggle; life-and-death |
| 文殊菩萨 | Wén shū Pú sà | Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness |
| 殊异 | shū yì | entirely different; quite separate |
| 殊乡 | shū xiāng | foreign land; faraway land |
| 众寡悬殊 | zhòng guǎ xuán shū | (idiom) a great disparity in numerical strength |
| 殊域周咨录 | Shū yù zhōu zī lù | Ming dynasty record (1574) of exploration and foreign relations |
| 殊致 | shū zhì | (literary) mixed; inconsistent; (literary) spectacular scenery |