(chǔ) - clear, distinct (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
chǔTraditional: 楚
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Translation
clear, distinct (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: 林 (forest) sits above 疋 (pǐ), which supplies the sound. It originally named a thorny shrub and now means clear or distinct, mostly in 清楚 (qīngchu).
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 林 (forest) + 疋 (pǐ, phonetic)
Stroke order
楚
Examples
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I can't see clearly.
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Speak clearly.
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He didn't hear clearly.
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Please speak clearly.
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I can't see the words on the blackboard clearly.
楚 (chǔ) means clear or distinct and is the bound second half of 清楚 (qīngchu), the everyday word for clear.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 楚.
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