楚

See also 椘

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 林 (“trees”) + phonetic 疋 – a place with many trees, the Kingdom of Chu.

Han character

楚 (radical 75 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木木弓卜人 (DDNYO), four-corner 4480₁)

1. Kingdom of Chu
2. clear
3. pain, suffering

Derived characters

• 礎

References

• KangXi: page 539, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15141
• Dae Jaweon: page 927, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1244, character 9
• Unihan data for U+695A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

楚 (Yale cho2)

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Japanese

Kanji

楚

Readings

• On: そ (so)
• Kun: いばら (ibara), しもと (shimoto), すわえ (suwae)

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Korean

Hanja

楚 (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

楚 (pinyin chǔ (chu3), Wade-Giles ch'u³)

Compounds

• 痛楚

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Vietnamese

Han character

楚 (sở, sỡ)