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茹

rú
verb #42,337

Meanings

  1. 1 to eat
  2. 2 to endure
  3. 3 to swallow (hardship)

Examples

原始时代，人们茹毛饮血，露宿野外。
Yuánshǐ shídài, rénmen rúmáoyǐnxuè, lùsù yěwài.
In primitive times people ate raw flesh and lived in the open.
她一生含辛茹苦。
Tā yìshēng hánxīnrúkǔ.
She has endured hardship and bitterness all her life.

Tips

usage
茹 (literally 'to eat') is now mostly seen in set phrases: 茹毛饮血 ('eating raw, fur and all', i.e. living like primitive people) and 含辛茹苦 ('to swallow bitterness', i.e. to endure great hardship).

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
The grass radical on top, hinting at the original sense of eating plants and roots, from which the wider meaning 'to eat, to endure' grew.
phonetic
如 rú
like; as; according to
Supplies the sound directly: 如 rú gives 茹 its exact reading rú, a clean phonetic match with no tone drift.

Stroke Order

茹 rú