Chinese symbol for “confucian”
儒
rú
scholar; Confucian
The closest CC-CEDICT match for confucian is 儒 (rú), defined as: scholar; Confucian.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character 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)) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “confucian”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.