殊 (shū) — different, special; (old) to cut off, execute

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TSUMUGU · B1 (est.) · 字

殊 character · B1 (est.)

殊＝歹＋朱

ㄕㄨ · shū

adj/verb — different, special; (old) to cut off, execute

字源 FORM — what the parts do

歹義a stripped bone — death, cutting off

朱聲zhū — gives the sounda tree marked at the trunk — vermilion

Izhū → shū — the initial shifted off the donor

The death-bone (歹) with 朱 zhū, the sound — to cut a body in two, to execute. From severing, what is set apart, singular: 特殊, 殊榮. 朱 carries the sound, the initial shifted to shū. 朱 also frames 株 zhū, 珠 zhū.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一刀斬下（歹），這條命就此分開——殊。

One stroke severs (歹), and this life is set apart — singular.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)殊（斬決）— to cut off, execute

→特殊、殊異— different, special常用

⇒殊榮、殊勝— extraordinary, outstanding

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension