拄 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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zhǔ

lean on

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 主 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

主 Sound component

zhǔ

master

Definitions

zhǔ

lean on; post; prod; ridicule; to lean on; to prop on

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*t<r>oʔ	trjuX	zhǔ	prop up, support (v.)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4240th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	8
Unicode	U+62C4

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