BaoBao Talk
拄
zhǔ · post; to lean on; to prod, to ridicule
- Pinyin
- zhǔ
- Tone
- third tone, dipping
- Strokes
- 8
- HSK level
- HSK 9
- Radical
- 扌
What 拄 means
- post
- to lean on
- to prod, to ridicule
How to remember 拄
Its sound decides the scene before you invent anything: the start picks who is in it, the ending picks where, and the tone picks where in that place you are standing.
Actor
the Jackal
the zh- sound
Place
the Lighthouse
no final at all: just the bare beam
Tone
the sunken pond in the yard
down into the dip, then back out
Put the Jackal at the Lighthouse, the sunken pond in the yard, doing something with 扌 and 主 that means “post”. That one picture carries the sound, the tone and the meaning at once. How the method works →
Why the Jackal? the Jackal is an animal because the -u- medial follows the initial, and the name starts with J to echo the zh- it stands for. All 55 actors →
Stroke order
The diagram above shades the strokes from first to last: the palest stroke is written first, the darkest last. 拄 takes 8 strokes.
What 拄 is built from
扌 主
Characters are made of a small number of repeating parts. Learn the parts once and every character that uses them gets easier.
Remember 拄, don't just look it up
BaoBao Talk turns each character into a scene built from its own sound and tone, so it has something to hang on. The parts repeat, which is why the hundredth character costs less effort than the tenth.