淑 – graceful, gentle, pure

11 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1922 in newspaper frequencyN1 vocabulary

The kanji 淑 means graceful, gentle, pure. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is シュク (shuku); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is しと.やか (shitoyaka). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 水 (no. 85).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	シュク	shuku
Kun’yomi	しと.やか	shitoyaka

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 水 (Kangxi radical 85). Components: 汁・小・卜・又.

Words using 淑

淑やかしとやかgraceful

Kanji with the same radical

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