| 茹 | 269C10 20A.40-9 | 部居  | 畫數 10 | ㄖㄨˊ [ru2] (also ㄖㄨˋ [ru4] ). | ||
| N. | (1) Roots attached to the crown of a plant: 拔茅連茹 pull up the rushes with their roots. (2) Vegetable food in gen. (3) A surname. | |||||
| V.t. | Eat: 茹苦 suffer (“taste bitterness”); 茹荼 ditto; 茹葷 eat meats; 茹素 practise vegetarianism; 貪茹 to swallow greedily, to gorge oneself; 茹毛飲血 live the life of a savage (“eat animal flesh raw and drink its blood”). | |||||
| Adj. | Rotten and foul-smelling: 茹魚 putrid fish. | |||||
| Words | 1. 茹筆 [ru2bi3], v.i., lick writing brush into shape. 2. 茹痛 [ru2tong4], v.i., suffer, endure, put up with, bear up under (pains). | |||||