shù
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 裋褐) coarse, short clothing worn by the poor; sackcloth

Examples

HSK 7-9
Jiùshí pínkǔ láogōng chuān cūbù shùhè.
In old times poor laborers wore coarse short jackets.
HSK 7-9
裋褐穿绫罗
Tā shēn zhuó shùhè, bù chuān língluó.
He wore plain sackcloth, refusing fine silk and brocade.

Tips

usage
is a bound, literary character, only in 裋褐: the rough short garment of poor working people in old times. It often signals poverty or a humble life in classical texts.

Components

radical
clothing
is the clothing radical, the left-side form of . It marks as a garment, here a poor person's coarse jacket.
phonetic
dòu
bean; a ritual vessel
supplies the sound, drifted from dòu to shù. It carries no meaning here, working only as the phonetic beside the clothing radical.

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Stroke Order

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