夙

夙 (Kangxi radical 36, 夕+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓一弓戈 (HNMNI), four-corner 7721₀, composition ⿵几歹)

• 㑉 洬 珟 㓘

• KangXi: page 246, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5755
• Dae Jaweon: page 489, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 861, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5919

Historical forms of the character 夙
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

The oracle bone script consisted of 月 (“moon”) and 丮, and resembled a man holding the moon, probably representing the worship of the moon. Alternatively, it might represent a person working under the moon in the early morning when the moon has not set.

In some forms of its bronze inscription, 月 corrupted into 夕.

丮 later got reduced into 凡.

Compare with Burmese ‌သောက် (‌sauk, “to lighten up”) ‌as in Burmese မိုးသောက် (mui:sauk, “early morning, first light”).

夙

1. early morning
2. early
3. old; past
4. since old days

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: すく (suku)
• Kan-on: しゅく (shuku)
• Kun: つとに (tsutoni, 夙に); はやい (hayai, 夙い)

夙 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune–Reischauer suk)

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夙: Hán Nôm readings: túc

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