熟 (shú)
cooked; ripe; familiar
How 熟 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 亠 — lid
- Traditional
- 熟
- Simplified
- 熟 (unchanged)
熟 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- shóu
- see 熟[shu2]
- shú
- cooked (of food); ripe (of fruit); mature (of seeds); familiar
Common words using 熟
- 成熟 chéngshú
- mature; ripe; to mature
- 熟悉 shúxī
- to be familiar with; to know well
- 催熟 cuīshú
- to promote ripening of fruit
- 早熟 zǎoshú
- precocious; early-maturing
- 煮熟 zhǔshóu
- boil
- 熟人 shúrén
- acquaintance; friend
- 熟睡 shúshuì
- asleep; sleeping soundly
- 熟練 shúliàn
- practiced; proficient; skilled
- 眼熟 yǎnshú
- familiar-looking; to seem familiar
- 嫻熟 xiánshú
- adept; skilled
- 常熟 chángshú
- Changshu county level city in Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1], Jiangsu
- 常熟市 chángshóushì
- Changshou county level city in Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1], Jiangsu
熟 in a sentence
我跟這裡的路不太熟，可能會迷路。
Wǒ gēn zhèlǐ de lù bútài shú, kěnéng huì mílù.
“I'm not very familiar with the roads here; I might get lost.”
How common is 熟?
熟 is the 1,033rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.7% of all running text.
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