刍 — Chinese character
刍
chú
to mow, to cut grass; hay, fodder
- Pinyin
- chú
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 彐
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component ⺈; sound component 彐
- Traditional
- 芻
Common words with 刍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 反刍 (反芻) | fǎn chú | to ruminate; to chew the cud |
| 反刍动物 (反芻動物) | fǎn chú dòng wù | ruminant |
| 刍议 (芻議) | chú yì | lit. grass-cutter's comment (humble); fig. my observation as a humble layman; my humble opinion |
| 刍狗 (芻狗) | chú gǒu | (literary) straw dog used as a ritual offering in ancient China (treated with reverence during the rite and discarded afterwards) |
| 反裘负刍 (反裘負芻) | fǎn qiú fù chú | lit. to wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back (idiom); fig. to live a life of poverty and hard work |
| 刍秣 (芻秣) | chú mò | hay; fodder |
| 刍粮 (芻糧) | chú liáng | army provisions |
| 刍荛 (芻蕘) | chú ráo | to mow grass and cut firewood; grass mower |
| 刍豢 (芻豢) | chú huàn | livestock; farm animals |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.