Chinese Character Wiki
柔

róu

soft, flexible

Phonosemantic compound. 矛 represents the sound and 木 represents the meaning.

Components
矛 sound component

矛  Sound component

máo

  

spear

木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

Evolution

柔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
柔 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
柔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

柔  

róu

soft; gentle, pliant; flexible; supple; yielding; rho (Greek letter Ρρ)

Most common words with 柔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

温柔

tender

柔软

soft

柔

soft

柔和

gentle

轻柔

soft

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

揉 鞣

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

揉 蹂 鞣 糅 猱

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nu

nyuw

róu

soft


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.3223% of movies

1675th most common character in movies

1573rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+67D4

Shuowen

“柔，木曲直也。从木，矛聲。”


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