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Chinese symbol for “mat”

蓐
rù
mat; rushes

The closest CC-CEDICT match for mat is 蓐 (rù), defined as: mat; rushes.

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Characters and stroke order

蓐 rù
straw mat; rushes, reeds
radical 140 ⾋ · 14 strokes

Other Chinese words for “mat”

WordPinyinMeaning
垫子 (墊子)diàn zicushion; mat; pad
垫 (墊)diànpad; cushion
裀yīnmat; underclothing
藉jiè(literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
卡垫 (卡墊)kǎ diàn(Tibetan) rug; mat

Related words

Other words that share a character with 蓐.

WordPinyinMeaning
临蓐 (臨蓐)lín rùat childbirth; in labor

See also: Japanese symbol for “mat”.

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.