Share this link via
Or copy link
Kanji Detail for 株 - "stock, stump, share"
株
- Meaning
株 means "stock, stump, share."
Stock - Shares in a company; equity.
Stump - The base of a tree; a stub.
Specialty - One's forte; an area of expertise.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
stocks; stump; shares; stock; counter for small plants
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
numerary adjunct for trees; root
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
tree trunk; stump (tree root); a plant; classifier for trees or plants; strain (biology); to involve others (in shady business)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
root, stump; measure word for trees
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The part of a tree in the soil is the root. Above the soil is the 株 (stump). A Song farmer saw a rabbit die from hitting a stump, so he stopped farming and waited by the stump hoping for another rabbit. From "Han Feizi." Hence stubbornly clinging to old ideas is called 守株待兔 (guarding a stump waiting for rabbits). | Trees are counted as 株. One tree is called 一株. | When guilt extends to others, it is called 株連 (implication). One person's crime implicates associates, like felling a tree affects connected roots. What ancients called 瓜蔓抄 (melon vine search).
- Onyomi
- Kunyomi
- Strokes
- Radical
- Related Keywords