shuò
adjective/noun #24,736

Meanings

  1. 1 large
  2. 2 master's degree

Examples

Shuòshì
master's degree
Shuòguǒ
great achievements; large fruit

Tips

memory
(stone) + (page/head) — a large solid thing

Components

radical
head; page
Right side is the indexing radical — originally a pictograph of a human head, not the modern paper page. means a head of impressive size, hence large, eminent, and the academic master's degree (硕士). Same radical groups with neck, top, face.
phonetic
shí
stone (here phonetic)
Left side supplies the sound — shí drifting to shuò through an old-Chinese vowel reading preserved in this character. The stone imagery adds a faint flavour of solid and weighty, which fits 's meaning of large and substantial.

Stroke Order

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