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茹

rú
verb #42,337

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 5
她一生含辛茹苦。
Tā yìshēng hánxīn-rúkǔ.
She has endured hardship and bitterness all her life.
HSK 7-9
原始时代，人们茹毛饮血，露宿野外。
Yuánshǐ shídài, rénmen rúmáo-yǐnxuè, lùsù yěwài.
In primitive times people ate raw flesh and lived in the open.

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