儒 — Chinese character
儒
rú
Confucian scholar
- Pinyin
- rú
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 亻 需
- Formation
- pictophonetic — person; meaning component 亻; sound component 需
- Japanese
- 儒 as a kanji
Common words with 儒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 侏儒 | zhū rú | person with dwarfism; dwarf |
| 儒雅 | rú yǎ | scholarly; refined |
| 儒生 | rú shēng | Confucian scholar (old) |
| 犬儒 | quǎn rú | cynic |
| 犬儒主义 (犬儒主義) | quǎn rú zhǔ yì | cynicism |
| 焚书坑儒 (焚書坑儒) | fén shū kēng rú | to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇 (Qín Shǐ huáng)) |
| 儒艮 | rú gèn | dugong |
| 腐儒 | fǔ rú | hidebound scholar |
| 侏儒症 | zhū rú zhèng | dwarfism |
| 宿儒 | sù rú | experienced scholar; old expert in the field |
| 宏儒 | hóng rú | learned scholar |
| 侏儒仓鼠 (侏儒倉鼠) | zhū rú cāng shǔ | dwarf hamster |
English words written with 儒
儒 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 23
- Analects 6.11
- Mencius 3A.5
- Mencius 7B.26
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
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.