倏

倏 U+500F, 倏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-500F ← 倎 [U+500E] CJK Unified Ideographs 倐 → [U+5010]

Translingual

Han character

倏 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人中人大 (OLOK), four-corner 2723₄, composition ⿲亻丨⿱夂犬(GJK) or ⿲亻丨⿱攵犬(HT))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 107, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 762
• Dae Jaweon: page 229, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 175, character 6
• Unihan data for U+500F

Chinese

trad.		倏
simp. #		倏
alternative forms		倐 儵 翛 𤟏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倏
Small seal script s07187 Transcribed ancient scripts L25398 L25399 L25400
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

	Old Chinese
絛	*l̥ʰɯːw
窱	*ʔl'ɯːwʔ, *l̥ʰɯːws
蓧	*l̥ʰɯːw, *l'ɯːwɢ
條	*l'ɯːw
鋚	*l'ɯːw
鞗	*l'ɯːw
樤	*l'ɯːw
鰷	*l'ɯːw
莜	*l'ɯːws
翛	*slɯːw, *hljɯwɢ
筱	*slɯːwʔ
篠	*slɯːwʔ
修	*slɯw
脩	*slɯw
樇	*slɯw
滫	*slɯwʔ
悠	*lɯw
攸	*lɯw
浟	*lɯw
蓨	*l̥ʰɯːwɢ
滌	*l'ɯːwɢ
儵	*hljɯwɢ
倐	*hljɯwɢ
倏	*hljɯwɢ
虪	*hljɯwɢ

Characters in the same phonetic series (攸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hljɯwɢ): phonetic 攸 (OC *lɯw) + semantic 犬

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	倏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式竹切
Baxter	syuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕuwk̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiuk̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭuk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	suk1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	倏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*liwk/
English	rapid, sudden
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	倏
Reading #	1/1
No.	15487
Phonetic component	攸
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	叔
Old Chinese	/*hljɯwɢ/
Notes	原訛倐依説文集韻改

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū, shù (shu¹, shu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ, ㄕㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): suk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shu
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹
    • Yale: shū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shù
    • Wade–Giles: shu⁴
    • Yale: shù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: suk¹
    • Yale: sūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: sug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: syuwk

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*liwk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljɯwɢ/

Definitions

倏

1. sudden; abrupt
2. suddenly; abruptly; hastily

   • 日已向夕，漂女盡散，其人倏來橋上，倚柱長歌。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 《松都記異》 (Account of the Marvels of Kaesong), 1631

     Il i hyang seok, pyonyeo jin san, gi in suk rae gyo sang, ui ju jang ga. [Sino-Korean]

     The day had already started to darken, and the girls washing clothes had all dispersed. Suddenly, the man came up to the bridge, leaned against the pillar, and sang for a long time.

Compounds

• 倏來忽往 / 倏来忽往
• 倏地
• 倏忽
• 倏然
• 倏爾 / 倏尔
• 倏眒
• 倏瞬

References

• “倏”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

倏

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅく (shuku)
• Kun: たちまち (tachimachi)

Korean

Hanja

倏 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune–Reischauer suk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倏: Hán Nôm readings: thúc

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