杵
chǔ

pestle

杵 chǔ
pestle
a wooden stick used to pound rice, medicine, or laundry
to poke
to poke, jab, or stab with a long object or finger
to stand still
to stand still or stay in one place like a post; to stand around blankly
club-like weapon
a type of ancient heavy wooden weapon resembling a pestle
shield
(archaic) a shield

Cross-References

Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,776th most common 1.18 per million
Movie subtitles
3,846th most common 0.790 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.950 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.25 per million

Details
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+6775

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)