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芻

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

刍

🇨🇳

cut

HSK 10

Nature →Plants →Grasses

chú

スウ、シュウ、ス

まぐさ

추

Pictograph of a hand picking off blades of grass.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

刍

Regular

Modern

Chinese

刍 / 芻 [chú]

to mow or cut grass; hay; straw; fodder

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (8)

反刍 [fǎnchú] #28,241

刍议 [chúyì] #47,891

lit. grass-cutter's comment (humble); fig. my observation as a humble layman

反刍动物 [fǎnchúdòngwù]

反裘负刍 [fǎnqiúfùchú]

lit. to wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back (idiom)

刍秣 [chúmò]

刍粮 [chúliáng]

army provisions

刍荛 [chúráo]

to mow grass and cut firewood

刍豢 [chúhuàn]

JAPANESE WORDS (6)

反芻 [はんすう] #11,147

烏枢沙摩明王 [うすさまみょうおう] #202,140

反芻動物 [はんすうどうぶつ] #207,973

乾芻 [かんすう]

反芻類 [はんすうるい]

苾蒭 [ひっしゅ]

bhikkhu (fully ordained Buddhist monk)

KOREAN WORDS (1)

rumination; reflection