| 壽 | |||
| old age, long life; lifespan | |||
| Radical | 士 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 11 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | shoù | Cantonese reading | sau6 |
| Japanese on reading | ju su shuu juu | Japanese kun reading | kotobuki hisashii kotoogu |
| Korean reading | swu | Vietnamese reading | thọ |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 寿 | ||
| Semantic Variant(s) | 寿 夀 | ||
| 壽 | [ shoù ] (long) life |
| 壽材 | [ shoù caí ] coffin |
| 壽辰 | [ shoù chén ] birthday (of an old person) |
| 壽豐鄉 | [ shoù fēng xiāng ] (N) Shoufeng (village in Taiwan) |
| 壽光 | [ shoù guāng ] (N) Shouguang (city in Shandong) |
| 壽禮 | [ shoù lǐ ] birthday present (for an old person) |
| 壽麵 | [ shoù miàn ] birthday noodles (for longevity) |
| 壽命 | [ shoù mìng ] life span, life expectancy |
| 壽寧 | [ shoù níng ] (N) Shouning (place in Fujian) |
| 壽司 | [ shoù sī ] sushi |
| 壽桃 | [ shoù taó ] birthday peaches |
| 壽王墳 | [ shoù wáng fén ] (N) Shouwangfen (place in Hebei) |
| 壽縣 | [ shoù xiàn ] (N) Shou county (county in Anhui) |
| 壽星 | [ shoù xīng ] god of longevity |
| 壽陽 | [ shoù yáng ] (N) Shouyang (place in Shanxi) |
| 壽衣 | [ shoù yī ] burial clothes |
| ⇒ 拜壽 | [ baì shoù ] congratulate an elderly person on his birthday, offer birthday felicitations |
| ⇒ 長壽 | [ cháng shoù ] (n) longevity; ability to live long, (adj) long lived |
| ⇒ 漢壽 | [ hàn shoù ] (N) Hanshou (place in Hunan) |
| ⇒ 靈壽 | [ líng shoù ] (N) Lingshou (place in Hebei) |
| ⇒ 仁壽 | [ rén shoù ] (N) Renshou (place in Sichuan) |
| ⇒ 人壽保險 | [ rén shoù baǒ xiǎn ] life insurance |
| ⇒ 萬壽山 | [ wàn shoù shān ] name of a place, Longevity Hill, in Summer Palace 颐和园 |
| ⇒ 延壽 | [ yán shoù ] (N) Yanshou (place in Heilongjiang) |
| ⇒ 永壽 | [ yǒng shoù ] (N) Yongshou (place in Shaanxi) |