 | 孰 | ||
| who? which? what? which one? | |||
| Radical | 子孑孒孓𡤼 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 8 | Total Strokes | 11 |
| Mandarin reading | shú | Cantonese reading | suk6 |
| Japanese on reading | juku | Japanese kun reading | tare izure |
| Korean reading | swuk | Vietnamese reading | |
| Specialized Semantic Variant(s) |
塾 | ||
| 孰 | [ shú ] who, which, what |
| 孰優孰劣 | [ shú yoū shú liè ] which of the two is better? |
| 孰料 | [ shú ] who would have thought?, who could have imagined?, unexpectedly |
| 孰真孰假 | [ shú zhēn shú jiǎ ] what is true and what is fake |
| ⇒ 人非生而知之者，孰能無惑 | [ rén feī shēng ér zhī zhī zhě shú néng wú huò ] Knowledge is not innate to man, how can we overcome doubt?, We are not born with knowledge, how does one achieve maturity? (i.e. without guidance from a teacher - Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4]) |
| ⇒ 孰優孰劣 | [ shú yoū shú liè ] which of the two is better? |
| ⇒ 孰真孰假 | [ shú zhēn shú jiǎ ] what is true and what is fake |
| ⇒ 是可忍，孰不可忍 | [ shì kě rěn shú bù kě rěn ] if this can be tolerated, what cannot? (idiom), enough is enough |