朱 (zhū)
Vermilion; bright red; surname Zhu.
How 朱 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 朱
- Simplified
- 朱 (unchanged)
Common words using 朱
- 朱古力 zhūgǔlì
- chocolate (loanword); CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- 朱元璋 zhūyuánzhāng
- Zhu Yuanzhang, personal name of first Ming dynasty emperor Hongwu 洪武[Hong2 Wu3]
- 朱砂 zhūshā
- cinnabar; mercuric sulfide HgS; also written 硃砂|朱砂[zhu1 sha1]
- 朱紅 zhūhóng
- vermilion
- 朱雀 zhūquè
- Vermilion Bird (the seven mansions of the south sky)
- 朱允炆 zhūyǔnwén
- Zhu Yuanwen, personal name of second Ming Emperor Jianwen 建文[Jian4 Wen2]
- 朱子 zhūzi
- Master Zhu, another name for Zhu Xi 朱熹
- 朱棣 zhūdì
- Zhu Di, personal name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐[Yong3 le4]
- 朱諾 zhūnuò
- Juneau, capital of Alaska; Juno, Roman goddess of marriage
- 朱鹮 zhūhuán
- ibis; toki or Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon)
朱 in a sentence
這種鳥的羽毛是朱紅色的。
Zhè zhǒng niǎo de yǔmáo shì zhūhóngsè de.
“The feathers of this bird are vermilion.”
How common is 朱?
朱 is the 1,118th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 90.9% of all running text.
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