Read Edit View history Discussion 着 zhezháozhuózhāozhù HSK1 [progress particle] Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Simplified form of 著. 艹 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "chopsticks", now written as 箸. The modern meanings are phonetic loans. Pinyin Separate values with commas zhe ×zháo ×zhuó × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 着 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas 著 ×着 × Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Alludes to bamboo chopsticks. 艹 and ⺮ (bamboo) were often used interchangeably with each other because of their visual and semantic similarity. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 着 Simp strokes 着 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 着 Simp strokes 着 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 着 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 357, 802 ], [ 431, 754 ], [ 443, 730 ] ], [ [ 618, 851 ], [ 633, 816 ], [ 518, 722 ] ], [ [ 306, 648 ], [ 378, 640 ], [ 506, 655 ], [ 668, 688 ], [ 709, 684 ] ], [ [ 325, 537 ], [ 377, 529 ], [ 614, 563 ], [ 663, 554 ] ], [ [ 154, 409 ], [ 206, 400 ], [ 493, 442 ], [ 783, 469 ], [ 831, 463 ], [ 871, 449 ] ], [ [ 451, 622 ], [ 480, 598 ], [ 465, 541 ], [ 420, 417 ], [ 357, 308 ], [ 304, 239 ], [ 218, 154 ], [ 101, 67 ], [ 84, 60 ] ], [ [ 400, 325 ], [ 401, 181 ], [ 386, 33 ], [ 388, -5 ] ], [ [ 417, 325 ], [ 432, 314 ], [ 614, 351 ], [ 640, 337 ], [ 655, 320 ], [ 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