楚
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distinct; clear; orderly; pain; suffering; deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex); punishment cane (old)
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- 木 +9
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- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 楚
- Common rank
- #1,589
- Unicode
- U+695A
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Formation & memory
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How 楚 is formed
How to remember it
clear · Heisig RSH #399
zoo + 林 woods
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 楚
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天低吴楚，眼空无物 | the sky hangs low over the Yangtze, empty as far as the eye can see (idiom); nothing to se… | |
| 一清二楚 | to be very clear about sth (idiom) | |
| 尼布楚条约 | Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia | |
| 头脑清楚 | lucid; clear-headed; sensible | |
| 中俄尼布楚条约 | Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia | |
| 巴楚县 | Maralbexi, a county in Kashgar City 喀什市[Ka1 shi2 Shi4], Xinjiang | |
| 不清楚 | unclear; not understood; currently unknown | |
| 楚河汉界 | lit. the river that divides Chu and Han; fig. a line that divides rival territories; the m… | |
| 年楚河 | Nyang qu or Nian chu River in Tibet, a tributary of Yarlung Tsangpo | |
| 四面楚歌 | lit. on all sides, the songs of Chu (idiom); fig. surrounded by enemies, isolated and with… | |
| 楚汉相争 | see 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争[Chu3 Han4 Zhan4 zheng1] | |
| 口齿清楚 | clear diction; clear articulation | |
| 楚汉战争 | Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] of Han … | |
| 楚雄彝族自治州 | Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3] | |
| 吴头楚尾 | lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together; head-to-tail; one thing star… | |
| 楚国 | the state of Chu, one of the most important of the small states contending for power in Ch… | |
| 楚雄市 | Chuxiong, a county-level city in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州[Chu3 xiong2 Yi2… | |
| 巴楚 | see 巴楚縣|巴楚县[Ba1 chu3 Xian4] | |
| 楚雄州 | see 楚雄彝族自治州[Chu3 xiong2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] | |
| 钟楚红 | Cherie Chung (1960–), Hong Kong actress |