殊shū
different, special, unusual. 10 strokes, radical 歹, first met in HSK 4.
Pinyin shūStrokes 10Radical 歹Band HSK 4Words 1
How to write 殊
Strokes 1–4 write 歹, then strokes 5–10 write 朱.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 殊 · the stroke-order rules
What 殊 is made of
歹 (dǎi, corpse) and 朱 (zhū, cinnabar).
歹 carries the meaning — depraved — and 朱 carries the sound.
Words that use 殊
| 特殊 | special, particular 跟一般情况不一样，很少见 他针对特殊难题进行了深入思考。He thought deeply about this particular difficult problem. Lesson 338, 登台明辨与哲思长青 · 登台论道与绿意怡然 · Thoughtful Discourse & Green Living |
Characters that share the sound part 朱
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.