躇 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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chú

hesitate

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 著 represents the sound.

Components

足 Meaning component

zú, jù

foot

著 Sound component

zhe, zhāo, zháo, zhuó, zhù

[progress particle]

Definitions

chú

hesitate, falter, be undecided; to hesitate

Most common words with 躇

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*tʰrak	trhjak	chuò	jump over, pass over

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3322nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	18
Unicode	U+8E87

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