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茹

rú

roots

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 如 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

如 sound component

如  Sound component

rú

  

be like

Evolution

茹 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
茹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
茹 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
茹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

茹  

rú

roots; vegetables; eat; bear; to eat; (extended meaning) to endure; putrid smell; roots (inextricably attached to the plant)

茹  

Rú

surname Ru

Most common words with 茹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

茹

to eat

梁静茹

Fish Leong (1978-), Malaysian pop singer

含辛茹苦

to bear one's cross

茹毛饮血

devour raw meat and fowl (of savages)

竹茹

bamboo shavings (Bambusa tuldoides) used in Chinese medicine

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*naʔ

nyoX

rú

swallow, eat

*na-s

nyoH

rú

scrutinize

*naʔ-s

nyoH

rú

swallow, eat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3532nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+8339

Shuowen

“茹，飤馬也。从艸，如聲。”


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