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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jǔ | ju3
English translation
rule, regulation; pattern; to carve

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

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A wooden  carpenter's square  also provides the pronunciation

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

矩木

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. shǐ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as .

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
规矩 guīju rule規矩
矩阵 jǔ zhèn array矩陣
rule
扭矩 niǔ jǔ torque扭矩 niǔ jǔ
循规蹈矩 xún guī dǎo jǔ to act according to convention循規蹈矩
矩形 jǔ xíng rectangle矩形 jǔ xíng
力矩 lì jǔ torque力矩 lì jǔ
守规矩 shǒu guī ju to behave oneself守規矩
磁矩 cí jǔ magnetic moment磁矩 cí jǔ
规行矩步 guī xíng jǔ bù to act according to convention規行矩步
中心矩 zhōng xīn jǔ (statistics) central moment中心矩 zhōng xīn jǔ
规矩准绳 guī ju zhǔn shéng norms規矩準繩
规矩绳墨 guī ju shéng mò norms規矩繩墨
矩尺 jǔ chǐ set square (tool to measure right angles)矩尺 jǔ chǐ
原点矩 yuán diǎn jǔ (statistics) moment原點矩

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