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褚

zhǔ

Character

What 褚 means

1. padding (in garment)
2. to store up
3. pocket
4. Taiwan pr. chǔ

Other readings

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

• Chǔsurname Chu

Words starting with 褚

• 褚人获Chǔ Rén huòChu Renhuo (1635-1682), author of historical novel Dramatized History of Sui and Tang 隋唐演义
• 褚遂良Chǔ Suì liángChu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家

Characters built on 者

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

• 署shǔoffice; bureau; (Taiwan pr. shù) to sign
• 著zhùto make known; to show; to prove
• 诸zhūall; various
• 赌dǔto bet; to gamble
• 绪xùbeginnings; clues; mental state
• 屠túto slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
• 猪zhūhog; pig; swine
• 堵dǔto block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole)…

Sounds the same

Read zhǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 主owner; master; host
• 煮to cook; to boil
• 嘱to enjoin; to implore; to urge
• 拄to lean on; to prop on
• 瞩to gaze at; to stare at
• 属to join together; to fix one's attention on; to concentrate on
• 渚islet; bank
• 丶"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3), aka 点
• 砫ancestral tablet
• 麈leader of herd; stag
• 斸cut
• 𬣞wisdom