楚骚 chǔsāo Encountering Sorrow Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 楚 chǔ Chu State the Chu Kingdom, a powerful state during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (c. 1030–223 BC)骚 騷 sāo [Li Sao] (bound form) relating to the poem 离骚 lísāo or the literary style it inspired