茹

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 (“grass, plants”) + phonetic 如 – plant roots, part of a plant.

Han character

茹 (radical 140 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿女口 (TVR), four-corner 4446₀)

1. roots
2. vegetables
3. eat
4. bear

References

• KangXi: page 1029, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30921
• Dae Jaweon: page 1488, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3211, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8339

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Cantonese

Hanzi

茹 (Yale yu4)

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Japanese

Kanji

茹

Readings

• On: じょ (jo), にょ (nyo)
• Kun: くう (kuu), ゆでる (yuderu)

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Korean

Hanja

茹 (hangeul 여, revised yeo, McCune-Reischauer yŏ, Yale ye)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

茹 (pinyin chuò (chuo4), rú (ru2), Wade-Giles ch'o⁴, ju²)

Compounds

• 竹茹

Last modified on 18 May 2011, at 13:11