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茹

rú

Character

What 茹 means

1. to eat
2. (extended meaning) to endure
3. putrid smell
4. vegetables
5. roots (inextricably attached to the plant)

Other readings

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

• Rúsurname Ru

Example sentences

• 欢迎来到阿拉卡茹.
  Huānyíng láidào ālā kǎ rú.
  Welcome to Aracaju.

Words starting with 茹

• 茹痛rú tòngto endure (suffering or sorrow)
• 茹素rú sùto eat a vegetarian diet
• 茹鱼rú yúputrid fish
• 茹古涵今rú gǔ hán jīnto take in (old and new experiences and sorrows)
• 茹毛饮血rú máo yǐn xuèdevour raw meat and fowl (of savages)
• 茹志鹃Rú Zhì juānRu Zhijuan (1925-1998), female novelist and politician
• 茹荤rú hūnto eat meat
• 茹荤饮酒rú hūn yǐn jiǔto eat meat and drink wine
• 茹苦含辛rú kǔ hán xīnsee 含辛茹苦
• 茹藘rú lǘsee 茜草

Words containing 茹

• 梁静茹Liáng Jìng rúFish Leong (1978–), Malaysian pop singer
• 含辛茹苦hán xīn rú kǔto suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship; to bear one's cross
• 竹茹zhú rúbamboo shavings (Bambusa tuldoides) used in Chinese medicine
• 菜茹cài rúgreens; green vegetables
• 拔茅连茹bá máo lián rúlit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others…
• 饭糗茹草fàn qiǔ rú cǎo(lit.) to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom); (fig.) to live in abject poverty
• 拔毛连茹bá máo lián rúvariant of 拔茅连茹

Characters built on 如

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

• 恕shùto forgive
• 絮xùcotton wadding; fig. padding; long-winded
• 铷rúrubidium (chemistry)
• 洳rùdamp; boggy; marshy

Characters that look like 茹

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

• 苗miáosprout
• 茄qiéeggplant
• 茜qiàn(bound form) Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia); (bound form) madder red…
• 荔lìlitchi
• 岿kuīhigh and mighty (of mountain); hilly
• 孬nāo(dialect) contracted form of 不好

Sounds the same

Read rú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 如as; as if; such as
• 儒scholar; Confucian
• 濡dilatory; to moisten
• 孺child
• 蠕to squirm; to wiggle; to wriggle
• 嚅chattering
• 铷rubidium (chemistry)
• 筎thin outside skin of bamboo
• 襦jacket; short coat
• 薷used in 香薷
• 曘color of the sun; dark
• 袽old rags