shú

ripe; mature

thoroughly cooked; done; familiar; acquainted; experienced; skilled; (of sleep etc) deep; profound; also pr. [shou2]

phonetic (孰) + fire beneath (灬) = cooked through, ripe, familiar

灬 (fire beneath) provides the meaning: heat is what turns raw into ripe, cooked, or deeply familiar. 孰 mainly gives the sound shú and does not carry the semantic weight here.

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An older character meaning 'who'Phonetic
FireSemantic

这些苹果已经了,可以吃了。

zhè xiē píng guǒ yǐ jīng shú le,kě yǐ chī le。

These apples are already ripe, they can be eaten now.

他对这条路很,不需要看地图。

tā duì zhè tiáo lù hěn shú,bù xū yào kàn dì tú。

He is very familiar with this road and does not need to look at a map.

Words with 熟

驾轻就熟

jià qīng jiù shú

lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy

一分熟

yī fēn shú

rare (of steak)

一回生二回熟

yī huí shēng èr huí shú

unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)

一回生两回熟

yī huí shēng liǎng huí shú

see 一回生二回熟[yi1 hui2 sheng1 er4 hui2 shu2]

一次生,两次熟

yī cì shēng , liǎng cì shú

unfamiliar at first but you get used to it

七分熟

qī fēn shú

medium well (of steak)

三分熟

sān fēn shú

medium rare (of steak)

五分熟

wǔ fēn shú

medium (of steak)

人生地不熟

rén shēng dì bù shú

to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom)

人生路不熟

rén shēng lù bù shú

everything is unfamiliar

人头熟

rén tóu shú

to know a lot of people

催熟

cuī shú

to promote ripening of fruit

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