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Kanji Detail for 楚 - "chaste tree, clear, elegant"
楚
- Meaning
楚 means "chaste tree, clear, elegant."
Chaste tree - A deciduous shrub of the verbena family.
Thorn bush - A small thorny tree.
Whip - A rod used for punishment.
Straight branch - A slender, upright twig.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
whip; cane
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
name of feudal state; clear
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Chu; abbr. for Hubei 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] and Hunan 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3] provinces together; Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722–221 BC)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
clear, distinct; pain, suffering; surname
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Small trees growing in clusters. A type of thorny bush. 夏楚 is a small rod used by teachers to strike those who violate protocol. From "Book of Rites, Music Record." 楚 refers to thorny branches, hence beating people is also called 夏楚. | Clear and bright appearance. Neat and tidy dress is called 齊楚. Clear matters are also called 清楚. Such as when debts are settled, they are 歸楚. | Painful. Such as 酸楚 (sour pain), 苦楚 (bitter pain), as if within thorns. | State name. King Cheng of Zhou enfeoffed Xiong Yi at Chu. Located at Danyang, in present-day Zigui County, Hubei. During Spring and Autumn and Warring States, it occupied both Hunan and Hubei, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and southern Henan. Later destroyed by Qin. | Now Hunan and Hubei together are called 楚.
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