庶 — Chinese character
庶
shù
numerous, various; multitude
- Pinyin
- shù
- Radical
- 53 ⼴ (Dotted Cliff)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 广 廿 灬
- Formation
- ideographic — Many people 灬 (twenty or more 廿) in a house 广
- Japanese
- 庶 as a kanji
Common words with 庶
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庶民 | shù mín | the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature); plebeian |
| 富庶 | fù shù | populous and affluent |
| 庶子 | shù zǐ | son born of a concubine |
| 庶出 | shù chū | born of a concubine (rather than of the wife) |
| 庶几 (庶幾) | shù jī | (literary) similar; almost; (literary) if only; it is to be hoped that |
| 黎庶 | lí shù | populace; masses; the people |
| 庶吉士 | shù jí shì | title of the temporary position in the Hanlin Academy 翰林院 (Hàn lín yuàn) conferred on meritorious candidates until the next examination |
| 庶妻 | shù qī | concubine |
| 庶室 | shù shì | concubine |
English words written with 庶
庶 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 4 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 27 · Zhuangzi 15 · Great Learning 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 5
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.