Keyword
to eat
- roots
- vegetables
- Frequency
- #4283
- Strokes
- 9
Readings
rú
Mnemonic
艹 (plant) gives the meaning and 如 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
梁静茹
Fish Leong (1978–), Malaysian pop singer
茹
to eat; (extended meaning) to endure; putrid smell; vegetables; roots (inextricably attached to the plant)
含辛茹苦
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship; to bear one's cross
茹毛饮血
devour raw meat and fowl (of savages)
茹素
to eat a vegetarian diet
竹茹
bamboo shavings (Bambusa tuldoides) used in Chinese medicine