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夙

sù

Character

What 夙 means

1. morning
2. early
3. long-held
4. long-cherished

Words starting with 夙

• 夙愿sù yuànlong-cherished wish
• 夙世sù shìprevious life
• 夙夜sù yèmorning and night; always; at all times
• 夙嫌sù xiánold grudge; long-standing resentment
• 夙敌sù díold foe; long-standing enemy
• 夙日sù rìat ordinary times
• 夙诺sù nuòold promise; long-standing commitment
• 夙夜匪懈sù yè fěi xièto work from morning to night (idiom)
• 夙兴夜寐sù xīng yè mèito rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard; to study diligently…
• 夙愿以偿sù yuàn yǐ chánga long-cherished ambition is realized
• 夙愿得偿sù yuàn dé chángto have a long-cherished wish realized

Characters built on 歹

These share the phonetic component 歹 (dǎi), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 殊shū(literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass; (bound form) different…
• 殂cúto die

Characters that look like 夙

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 执zhíto execute (a plan); to grasp
• 巩gǒng(bound form) to fix in place; to make firm and secure
• 坑kēngpit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive
• 玑jī(literary) baroque pearl; irregular pearl
• 纨wán(literary) fine white silk; delicate silk fabric
• 尻kāo(literary) buttocks; rump; coccyx; sacrum

Sounds the same

Read sù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 诉to complain; to sue; to tell
• 速fast; rapid; quick
• 塑to model (a figure) in clay; (bound form) plastic (i.e. the synthetic material)
• 素raw silk; white; plain, unadorned
• 宿lodge for the night; old; former
• 肃respectful; solemn; to eliminate
• 粟millet; (metonym) grain
• 溯to go upstream; to trace the source
• 愫guileless; sincere
• 簌used in 簌簌
• 嗉the crop of a bird
• 僳used in 傈僳