Chinese Character Wiki

褚

chǔ, zhǔ

bag

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

衤  Meaning component

yī

  

clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

者 sound component

者  Sound component

zhě

  

one who...

Evolution

褚 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
褚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

褚  

chǔ

bag, valise; stuff, pad; surname

褚  

Chǔ

surname Chu

褚  

zhǔ

padding (in garment); to store up; pocket; Taiwan pr. [chǔ]

Most common words with 褚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

褚

pocket

褚遂良

Chu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Táng​chū​Sì​Dà​jiā]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*traʔ

trjoX

zhǔ

to store, to heap


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3826th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+891A

Shuowen

“褚，卒也。从衣，者聲。一曰製衣。”


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