# 倏

| 倏 | U+500F, &#20495; 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 2723$_4$, 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
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 倏
* Small seal scripts07187Transcribed ancient scriptsL25398L25399L25400
* 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hljɯwɢ): phonetic 攸 (OC *lɯw) + semantic 犬

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shū, shù (shu$^1$, shu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ, ㄕㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): suk$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): sé̤ṳk
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeh$^6$ / syeh$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siok
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shū
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shu
*** Wade–Giles: shu$^1$
*** Yale: shū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
*** Palladius: шу (šu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂu⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shù
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shù
*** Wade–Giles: shu$^4$
*** Yale: shù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
*** Palladius: шу (šu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: suk$^1$
*** Yale: sūk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: suk$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sug$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sʊk̚⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: sé̤ṳk
*** Sinological IPA : /søyʔ²⁴/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: soeh$^6$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: se̤h
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬœʔ¹/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: syeh$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬyøʔ²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok
*** Tâi-lô: siok
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siog
*** IPA (Xiamen): /siɔk̚³²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔk̚⁵/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔk̚³²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /siɔk̚³²/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔk̚³²/
* Middle Chinese: syuwk
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 | suk$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*liwk/
    (Zhengzhang): /*hljɯwɢ/
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 |

### Definitions

倏
* sudden; abrupt
* suddenly; abruptly; hastily
    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–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “倏”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 213.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(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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