Kanji Detail for 茹 - "eat, vegetable, soft, rotten, boil"

茹

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
茹 means "eat, vegetable, soft, rotten, boil."
1. Eat - To consume.
2. Vegetable - A plant.
3. Soft - Tender.
4. Rotten - Foul-smelling.
5. Boil - To cook in water (Japanese usage).
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

boil; seethe

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

roots; vegetables; eat; bear

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

surname Ru

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

roots, vegetables

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Roots that connect to each other. The Book of Changes says "Pulling up cogon grass, its roots connect." Meaning the roots pull each other along. Therefore used as a metaphor for those in office mutually recommending and advancing each other. | To eat. Nowadays also refers to keeping a vegetarian diet as 茹素 (eating vegetarian).
Onyomi

jo(じょ)

nyo(にょ)
Kunyomi

ku.u(くう)

yuderu
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

艸艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)
Related Keywords
eat consume vegetable plant soft tender rotten foul smelling boil cook water