孺 — Chinese character
孺
rú
child; blood relation; affection
- Pinyin
- rú
- Radical
- 39 ⼦ (Child)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 子 需
- Formation
- pictophonetic — child; meaning component 子; sound component 需
- Japanese
- 孺 as a kanji
Common words with 孺
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 妇孺 (婦孺) | fù rú | women and children |
| 孺子 | rú zǐ | (literary) child |
| 妇孺皆知 (婦孺皆知) | fù rú jiē zhī | understood by everyone (idiom); well known; a household name |
| 孺子可教 | rú zǐ kě jiào | (idiom) this young person is worth teaching (used to praise sb as promising or capable of being taught) |
| 孺人 | rú rén | (old) wife; mother |
孺 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 5 · Zhuangzi 3
- Analects 17.20
- Mencius 2A.6
- Mencius 4A.8
- Mencius 4B.24
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi The Tao of God
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
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.