Read Edit View history 術 shùzhú art, skill Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Phonosemantic compound. 行 represents the meaning and 朮 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "city road". The meaning later shifted to "way", "method", "technique", and "skill". Pinyin Separate values with commas Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 术 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 術 Simp strokes 術 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 術 Simp strokes 術 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 術 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 282, 779 ], [ 307, 740 ], [ 272, 673 ], [ 225, 612 ], [ 140, 546 ] ], [ [ 264, 563 ], [ 284, 540 ], [ 291, 515 ], [ 265, 467 ], [ 183, 352 ], [ 109, 272 ], [ 48, 221 ] ], [ [ 231, 368 ], [ 231, 345 ], [ 244, 322 ], [ 241, 181 ], [ 229, 71 ], [ 235, 25 ] ], [ [ 378, 509 ], [ 435, 511 ], [ 570, 556 ], [ 593, 554 ] ], [ [ 439, 801 ], [ 485, 751 ], [ 480, 418 ], [ 474, 257 ], [ 464, 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