茹 Stroke Order — How to Write 茹

Stroke Order

茹 is written in 10 strokes, following the standard Chinese stroke order. Start from the radical 艹, then complete the remaining strokes.

Stroke order matters in Chinese: it keeps the character balanced, and it is how dictionaries and handwriting input methods expect a character to be written.

茹 Radical and Character Components

Components:艹如

茹 is a phono-semantic compound: 艹 (plant) carries the meaning, while 如 indicates the sound.

Radical: 艹 + 6 more strokes

茹 Pronunciation and Pinyin

Meanings of 茹 in Chinese

rú茹

To eat; to endure or bear; to receive or contain (knowledge).

父母为了家庭，含辛茹苦地工作了一辈子。

Parents worked hard their whole lives for their family, enduring all sorts of hardships.

To rot or decay, often used to describe food that has gone bad (e.g., '茹鱼' meaning rotten fish). It can also metaphorically refer to a counterproductive action that worsens a situation, as in the idiom '以茹鱼去蝇'.

他试图用撒谎来掩盖错误，结果却如同以茹鱼去蝇，让事情变得更糟。

He tried to cover up his mistakes with lies, but the result was like using rotten fish to drive away flies, making things even worse.

Soft; gentle, often used in ancient Chinese to describe a character trait of being overly pliable or indecisive, as in '柔茹' (róu rú).

他性格柔茹，在重大决策面前总是犹豫不决。

His character is gentle and indecisive; he always hesitates when facing major decisions.

Vegetables; edible plants, especially those cultivated in a garden or field.

奶奶在后院种了许多菜茹。

Grandma planted many vegetables in the backyard.

Describing how roots are intertwined or connected, often used metaphorically to mean that things are interconnected or that one action triggers a chain of related effects, like when pulling out reeds.