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Pronunciation: chŭ
Meaning: clean/neat, suffering, name of an ancient feudal state
Etymology:
Forest 林 (double tree 木) + phonetic 疋. (phono-semantic compound).

Traditional character: 楚 (the same)

Found in:
Wang Wei's 汉江临眺

Word of the day on: 01.19.09