褚

chǔ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 surname Chu
  2. 2 (classical) cotton padding in a garment; to store up

Examples

HSK 7-9
褚遂良是初唐著名的书法家。
Chǔ Suìliáng shì chūtáng zhùmíng de shūfǎjiā.
Chu Suiliang was a leading calligrapher of the early Tang dynasty.

Tips

history
褚 is used almost only as a surname today, as in the Tang calligrapher 褚遂良. A separate reading 褚 is an obsolete word for cotton wadding in clothing or for storing things up.
register
Surname use in modern Chinese; the 褚 'padding' sense is archaic and only in old texts.

Components

radical
衤 yī
clothing; garment
衤 is the clothing radical 衣 in left-side form. It carries the old meaning: 褚 was the cotton padding stuffed into a garment.
phonetic
者 zhě
one who; that which
者 supplies the sound, giving chǔ and zhǔ. The same phonetic appears in 猪 (pig) and 煮 (to boil).

Stroke Order

褚 chǔ