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竺

Zhú

Character

What 竺 means

1. surname Zhu
2. abbr. for {天竺|Tiān zhú}, India (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context)
3. archaicBuddhism

Other readings

竺 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• dǔvariant of {笃|dǔ}

Example sentences

• 红色天竺葵很美。
  Hóngsè tiānzhúkuí hěn měi.
  The red geranium is very beautiful.

Words starting with 竺

• 竺乾Zhú qiánBuddha (archaic); Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha)
• 竺学Zhú xuéBuddhist doctrine (archaic); Buddhist studies
• 竺教Zhú jiàoBuddhism (archaic)
• 竺书Zhú shūBuddhist texts (archaic); scripture
• 竺法Zhú fǎDharma (the teachings of the Buddha, archaic); Buddhist doctrine
• 竺可桢Zhú Kě zhēnZhu Kezhen (1890-1974), Chinese metereologist and geologist

Words containing 竺

• 天竺Tiān zhúthe Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context)
• 天竺葵tiān zhú kuígeranium (Pelargonium hortorum)
• 天竺鼠tiān zhú shǔguinea pig; cavy
• 天竺牡丹tiān zhú mǔ dandahlia

Characters built on 竹

These share the phonetic component 竹 (zhú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 符fúmark; sign; talisman
• 筑zhùfive-string lute; Taiwan pr. zhú
• 簿bùa book; a register; account-book
• 笃dǔ(bound form) sincere; genuine; (bound form) (of an illness) serious
• 簇cù(bound form) to cluster; to pile up; cluster; pile…
• 箍gūhoop; to bind with hoops
• 笏hù(old) ceremonial tablet (held by officials at an audience)
• 簌sùused in 簌簌

Characters that look like 竺

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

• 里lǐlining; interior; inside
• 驾jiàto harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive
• 茧jiǎn(bound form) cocoon; (bound form) callus (variant of 趼
• 笈jítrunks (for books)
• 荤hūnstrong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar
• 茔yíng(literary) a grave

Sounds the same

Read Zhú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 逐(bound form) to pursue; to chase; to drive away; one by one; individually
• 竹(bound form) bamboo; Kangxi radical 118
• 烛candle; (literary) to illuminate
• 术various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including…
• 蠋caterpillar
• 躅used in 踯躅
• 窋in a hole
• 舳poopdeck; stern of boat
• ⺮"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)
• 瘃chilblain
• 蓫(weed); Phytolacca acinosa
• 爥old variant of 烛