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  1. 1.surname Ru
  1. 1.to eat
  2. 2.(extended meaning) to endure
  3. 3.putrid smell
  4. 4.vegetables
  5. 5.roots (inextricably attached to the plant)

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to eat
  2. 2.to bear
  3. 3.to guess
  4. 4.soft
  5. 5.corrupted
  6. 6.vegetables
  7. 7.a surname
  8. 8.rubicene

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *nja, *njaʔ, *njas): semantic 艹 (“grass, plants”) + phonetic 如 (OC *nja, *njas) – plant roots, part of a plant. Schuessler (2007) proposes an Austroasiatic origin; compare Kharia [script needed] (ɲoʔ, “to eat”) and Proto-Vietic *s-nja:ʔ (“to chew, to masticate”) (> Vietnamese nhá). Schuessler (2003) also compares 茹 with Jingpho noʔ¹ 'to eat' and Proto-Mienic *ʔnəkᴰ 'to swallow'.

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