noun

Meanings

  1. 1 an ornamental belt jade

Examples

Tóu wǒ yǐ mùguā, bào zhī yǐ qióng jū.
You threw me a papaya, and I repaid you with a fine jade.
Gǔrén pèidài de yù jiào jū.
The character 琚 names a jade pendant worn on a belt by the ancients.

Tips

culture
A jade ornament that hung between the top piece and the bottom piece of a noble's belt-pendant set. It appears in the Book of Songs line about repaying a gift of fruit with (a beautiful jade). Today it survives mainly as a given-name character.

Components

radical
wáng
jade (left-side radical)
The left-side here is the jade radical (the side form of ), not 'king'. It marks as a jade object, the same family as and .
phonetic
to reside (phonetic)
The right side 'to dwell' supplies the sound jū directly and unchanged, an easy phonetic clue for this rare jade name.

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