刍
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to mow or cut grass; hay; straw; fodder
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 刀 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 芻
- Common rank
- #3,269
- Unicode
- U+520D
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Formation & memory
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How 刍 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺈ meaning “knife” + 彐 sound ()
Components ⺈ 彐
Words with 刍
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 反刍动物 | ruminant | |
| 反刍 | to ruminate; to chew the cud | |
| 刍狗 | (literary) straw dog used as a ritual offering in ancient China (treated with reverence du… | |
| 刍议 | lit. grass-cutter's comment (humble); fig. my observation as a humble layman; my humble op… | |
| 反裘负刍 | lit. to wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back (idiom); fig. to live … | |
| 刍粮 | army provisions | |
| 刍豢 | livestock; farm animals | |
| 刍秣 | hay; fodder | |
| 刍荛 | to mow grass and cut firewood; grass mower; woodman |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 彐 — compare how they read.