chuò
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 an ancient name for an animal resembling a large rabbit (archaic)

Examples

Chuò wéi gǔshū suǒ jì de yī zhǒng lèisì dà tù de shòu.
The graph 㲋 names an ancient creature similar to a giant hare.

Tips

register
Extremely archaic — definitions follow classical attestation only. The character is glossed in the 《说文》 as 'an animal like a rabbit but bigger; blue color'. No modern usage. You'll encounter only in paleographic dictionaries, Kangxi-radical browsing tables, or as an etymological footnote. It serves as the indexing radical of a small group of Ext-A characters.
history
Listed under Kangxi radical #196's neighborhood and used as a tiny stand-alone radical in a few comprehensive lists. The 《说文》 gloss 兽也,似兔,青色而大 ('a beast resembling a rabbit, blue and large') is the entire attested record — Han lexicographers may have been recording a folk creature now lost to identification.

Components

pictograph
chuò
ancient rabbit-like animal
Pictograph of a long-eared rabbit-like creature with a tail trailing down. Top echoes (rabbit), bottom is a small foot element. Listed as its own minor radical in some comprehensive Kangxi-style indexes; the modern simplified character replaced it for the standard 'rabbit' sense.

Filed under radical (bǐ) by convention. is not a separate component in 㲋, so no strokes are highlighted.