Chinese Character Wiki

鋤

chú

hoe

A metal 釒 tool 助; 助 also provides the pronunciation

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

助 sound,meaning component

助  Sound Meaning component

zhù

  

help

Evolution

鋤 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
鋤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

锄 (鋤) 

chú

hoe; eradicate; a hoe; to hoe or dig; to weed; to get rid of

Most common words with 鋤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

锄头

hoe

锄

a hoe

锄草

to hoe

锄地

to hoe

锄奸

to weed out the traitors

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-[l]<r>a

dzrjo

chú

hoe (n.)

*s-[l]<r>a

dzrjo

chú

to hoe


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3545th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

锄

Unicode

U+92E4


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