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Kanji Detail for 淑 - "graceful, virtuous, refined"
淑
- Meaning
淑 means "graceful, virtuous, refined."
Graceful - Elegant and refined.
Virtuous - Having high moral standards.
Pure - Clean and unsullied.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
graceful; gentle; pure
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
good, pure, virtuous, charming
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable; (used in given names); Taiwan pr. [shu2]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
good, pure, virtuous; charming
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Clear and deep. Good. | Words praising women often use 淑. As in 賢淑 (virtuous), 貞淑 (chaste), 婉淑 (gentle). In the Qing system, wives of officials third rank or above were titled 淑人.
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