chǔ

save money

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

諸 sound component

  Sound component

zhū

  

several

Evolution

儲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
儲 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
儲 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
儲 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

chǔ

to save money, store, reserve; an heir; to store; to save; to have in reserve; heir; Taiwan pr. [chú]

() 

Chǔ

surname Chu; Taiwan pr. [Chú]

Most common words with 儲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to store

储备

reserves

储蓄

to save

储存

stockpile

存储

to store up

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.6290% of movies

1870th most common character in movies

1526th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+5132

Shuowen

“儲,偫也。从人,諸聲。”


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