zhú

India

A kind  of bamboo ⺮; ⺮ also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺮ sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

二 meaning component

  Meaning component

èr

  

two

Evolution

竺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
竺 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
竺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhú

India; bamboo; surname

 

Zhú

surname Zhu; abbr. for 天竺[Tiān​zhú] India (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context); Buddhism (archaic)

 

variant of |[dǔ]

Most common words with 竺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

天竺

the Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context)

surname Zhu

天竺鼠

cavy

天竺葵

geranium (Pelargonium hortorum)

竺可桢

Zhu Kezhen (1890-1974), Chinese metereologist and geologist