zhu
/d͡ʒuː/
zhu noun: an ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 of the liang/tael/Chinese ounce, chiefly used in denominating small coins in ancient and early imperial China.
Noun (1)
zhu (plural zhu or zhus)
- An ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 of the liang/tael/Chinese ounce, chiefly used in denominating small coins in ancient and early imperial China.
- Modern research showed the correct number of millet seeds greatly exceeded surviving examples of the zhu in weight, until one tried growing older millet strains for several generations without modern agrochemicals. By the third year, his seeds produced a zhu within about 5% of its known historical...
Noun (2)
zhu (plural zhu or zhus)
- An ancient Chinese string instrument thought to have had a rectangular zither-like body with silk strings played with a bow.
Proper noun capitalized: Zhu
Zhu
- A surname from Chinese.
zhu meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
zhu in Hindi
- झू
zhu in Marathi
- झू, झु
zhu in Urdu
- زہو, زھو
More languagesFewer languages
- zhu in Telugu
- ఝు
- zhu in Kannada
- ಝು
- zhu in Punjabi
- ਝੂ
- zhu in Gujarati
- ઝુ
- zhu in Odia
- ଝୁ
- zhu in Nepali
- झु, झू
Forms of zhu
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | zhu |
| plural | zhus |
| alternative form | tcho |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Chu |
| alternative form | Choo |
| alternative form | Tu |
Origin of zhu
The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 銖 /铢 (zhū).
The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 筑 (zhù or zhú).
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 朱 (Zhū).
Words that rhyme with zhu
Questions about zhu
- What does zhu mean?
- Zhu means an ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 of the liang/tael/Chinese ounce, chiefly used in denominating small coins in ancient and early imperial China.
- What is zhu in Hindi?
- Zhu in Hindi is झू. See Zhu meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is zhu?
- Zhu can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce zhu?
- Zhu is pronounced /d͡ʒuː/.
- What is the plural of zhu?
- The plural of zhu is zhu.
Words near zhu in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: zhu (page history and authors); Zhu (page history and authors); zhu (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zhu (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zhu (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zhu (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zhu (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zhu (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zhu (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zhu (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zhu (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zhu (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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