zhū
dogwood
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 朱 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 茱
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
cornelian cherry | ||
Cornus officinalis | ||
Cornus officinalis (Japanese cornel dogwood, a kind of herb) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5057% of movies
2512th most common character in movies
5478th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+8331 |
Shuowen | “茱,茱萸,茮屬。从艸,朱聲。” |
Sources
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