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

茹

  • 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

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    jo(ジョ) ジョ

    nyo(ニョ) ニョ

  • Kunyomi

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    u.deru(う-でる) う-でる

    yu.deru(ゆでる) ゆでる

  • Strokes

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    12 strokes

  • Radical

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    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    eat consume vegetable plant soft tender rotten foul smelling boil cook water

Sentences including 茹

  • I boiled an egg.

  • I hard-boiled an egg.

  • She boiled the eggs.

  • Boil one egg.

  • Mother boiled ten eggs.

  • Tom is boiling eggs.

  • I really like hard-boiled eggs.

  • The potatoes have almost finished boiling.

  • What's the difference between boiling and simmering?

  • Chestnuts have to be boiled for at least fifteen minutes.

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