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儒

rú

Confucian scholar

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 需 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

需 sound component

需  Sound component

xū

  

need

Evolution

儒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
儒 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

儒  

rú

Confucian scholar; scholar; Confucian

Most common words with 儒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

侏儒

dwarf

儒

scholar

儒家

Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子[Kǒng​zǐ] (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子[Mèng​zǐ] (c. 372-c. 289 BC)

儒学

Confucianism

儒雅

scholarly

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.8741% of movies

2722nd most common character in movies

2006th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+5112

Shuowen

“儒，柔也，術士之偁。从人，需聲。”


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