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锄

chú

HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 鋤

锄 (chú) means "a hoe; to hoe or dig; to weed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 锄 means

1. a hoe
2. to hoe or dig
3. to weed
4. to get rid of

Example sentences

• 用锄头的时候小心一些
  Yòng chútou de shíhou xiǎoxīn yīxiē
  Be careful when working with a hoe.
• 化锄为剑，化剑为锄。
  Huà chú wèi jiàn, huà jiàn wèi chú.
  Make the hoe your sword, and the sword your hoe.

Words starting with 锄

• 锄头chú touhoe
• 锄地chú dìto hoe; to weed the soil
• 锄奸chú jiānto weed out the traitors
• 锄犁chú líplow
• 锄草chú cǎoto hoe; to weed
• 锄强扶弱chú qiáng fú ruòto root out the strong and support the weak (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor

Words containing 锄

• 鹤嘴锄hè zuǐ chúpickax
• 诛锄zhū chúto uproot; to eradicate (traitors)
• 诛锄异己zhū chú yì jǐto wipe out dissenters; to exterminate those who disagree

Characters that look like 锄

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

• 铺pūto spread; to display; to set up
• 辐fúspoke of a wheel
• 锚máoanchor
• 锉cuò(literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack
• 锏jiǎnancient weapon like a long solid metal truncheon
• 铟yīnindium (chemistry)

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
• 雏(bound form) chick; young bird
• 刍to mow or cut grass; hay; straw
• 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

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.