chú

to cut grass

To mow  grass  also provides the pronunciation

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

芻 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

chú

  

mow, cut grass

Evolution

蒭 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
蒭 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
蒭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蒭 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
蒭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𫇴 () 

chú

to cut grass; hay; fodder

 

chú

old variant of |[chú]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8974th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+84AD

Shuowen

“芻,刈艸也。象包束艸之形。”


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