chū

Ailanthus glandulosa or A. altissima

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

tree

雩 sound component

  Sound component

  

offer sacrifice for rain

Evolution

樗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
樗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
樗 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
樗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chū

Ailanthus glandulosa or A. altissima, a kind of tree useless as timber; simaroubaceae

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5525th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+6A17

Shuowen

“樗,木也。以其皮裹松脂。从木,雩聲。讀若華。檴,或从蒦。”


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