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刍

chú

Character Traditional 芻

What 刍 means

1. to mow or cut grass
2. hay
3. straw
4. fodder

Example sentences

• 牛是一种反刍类的哺乳动物。
  Ruminants are a group of mammals.

Words starting with 刍

• 刍狗chú gǒu(literary) straw dog used as a ritual offering in ancient China…
• 刍粮chú liángarmy provisions
• 刍议chú yìlit. grass-cutter's comment (humble); fig. my observation as a humble layman…
• 刍豢chú huànlivestock; farm animals
• 刍秣chú mòhay; fodder
• 刍荛chú ráoto mow grass and cut firewood; grass mower; woodman

Words containing 刍

• 反刍fǎn chúto ruminate; to chew the cud
• 反刍动物fǎn chú dòng wùruminant
• 反裘负刍fǎn qiú fù chúlit. to wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back (idiom)…

Characters that look like 刍

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)
• 击jīto hit; to strike; to break
• 杀shāto kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart
• 吕lǚpitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system
• 夷yínon-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out
• 匠jiàngcraftsman

Sounds the same

Read chú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 厨kitchen
• 除to get rid of; to remove; to exclude
• 橱wardrobe; closet; cabinet
• 锄a hoe; to hoe or dig; to weed
• 雏(bound form) chick; young bird
• 躇used in 踌躇
• 蜍Bufo vulgaris; toad
• 滁name of a river in Anhui
• 蹰used in 踟蹰
• 耡hoe
• 篨crude bamboo mat
• 鉏hoe