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茱

zhū
noun #4,809

Meanings

  1. 1 cornelian cherry
  2. 2 dogwood

Examples

HSK 7-9
重阳节有插茱萸的习俗。
Chóngyángjié yǒu chā zhūyú de xísú.
There is a custom of wearing dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival.
HSK 7-9
遍插茱萸少一人。
Biàn chā zhūyú shǎo yì rén.
Everyone wears dogwood, but one person is missing.

Tips

culture
茱 appears in the famous Tang dynasty poem by Wang Wei (王维): 遥知兄弟登高处，遍插茱萸少一人. It is associated with the Double Ninth Festival (重阳节).
usage
A bound character: it appears in 茱萸 (dogwood) and 山茱萸 (Asiatic cornelian cherry), not on its own.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant (top radical)
Top grass radical (3-stroke compressed form of 艸) - anchors 茱 in the world of plants. The grass-radical heads almost all flora vocabulary; here it specifies that 茱萸 is a small flowering shrub, not a stone or a metal.
phonetic
朱 zhū
vermilion; bright red
Bottom 朱 (vermilion red) - supplies the exact sound zhū AND adds a striking semantic hint: 茱萸 berries are bright crimson. 朱 itself depicts the red core inside a tree. So 茱 reads literally as the red-berried plant. Same phonetic in 珠 (pearl), 株 (tree-stem).

Stroke Order

茱 zhū