chǔ
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

遂良初唐著名书法家
Chǔ Suìliáng shì Chūtáng zhùmíng de shūfǎjiā.
Chu Suiliang was a leading calligrapher of the early Tang dynasty.

Tips

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

Components

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

Stroke Order

chǔ