帚
帚 — chu
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 비 추, 털 추
- Romanization
- chu
- English
- broom, broomstick
- Mandarin
- zhǒu
- Japanese on'yomi
- シュウ, ソウ, シュ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ほうき
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 巾 (50, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5E1A
How 帚 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 帚 as a phonetic compound involving 肀, 冖, 巾.
Characters sharing the phonetic 帚
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “추”
Other hanja with radical 巾
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