株 — Chinese character
株
zhū
root, stump; measure word for trees
- Pinyin
- zhū
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 木 朱
- Formation
- pictophonetic — tree; meaning component 木; sound component 朱
- Japanese
- 株 as a kanji
Common words with 株
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 株式会社 (株式會社) | zhū shì huì shè | Japanese limited company; corporation |
| 植株 | zhí zhū | (agriculture) plant |
| 株连 (株連) | zhū lián | to involve others (in a crime); guilt by association |
| 毒株 | dú zhū | (virus) strain |
| 守株待兔 | shǒu zhū dài tù | lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom); to wait idly for opportunities |
| 病株 | bìng zhū | diseased or infected plant |
| 株守 | zhū shǒu | to stick to sth stubbornly; never let go |
| 株距 | zhū jù | spacing; distance between plants (within a row) |
| 残株 (殘株) | cán zhū | stubble |
| 守株缘木 (守株緣木) | shǒu zhū yuán mù | abbr. for 守株待兔，緣木求魚|守株待兔，缘木求鱼[shou3 zhu1 dai4 tu4 , yuan2 mu4 qiu2 yu2] |
| 株治 | zhū zhì | to involve others (in a law case) |
| 流行株 | liú xíng zhū | epidemic strain |
English words written with 株
株 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1 · Zhuangzi 1
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.
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