rú
Confucian scholar
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 需 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 儒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
dwarf | ||
scholar | ||
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子[Kǒngzǐ] (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子[Mèngzǐ] (c. 372-c. 289 BC) | ||
Confucianism | ||
scholarly |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8741% of movies
2722nd most common character in movies
2006th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+5112 |
Shuowen | “儒,柔也,術士之偁。从人,需聲。” |
Sources
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