沮

沮 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水月一 (EBM), four-corner 3711₀, composition ⿰氵且)

1. stop, prevent
2. defeated, dejected

• 䈌 菹 𭈡 𪂔

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 613, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17238
• Dae Jaweon: page 1006, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1584, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6CAE

Historical forms of the character 沮
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

沮 (obsolete)

1. to stop; to prevent

   • 若苟賞不當賢而罰不當暴，則是為賢者不勸而為暴者不沮矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     若苟赏不当贤而罚不当暴，则是为贤者不劝而为暴者不沮矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mozi, c. 4^th century BCE

     Ruò gǒu shǎng bù dāng xián ér fá bù dāng bào, zé shì wèi xiánzhě bù quàn ér wèi bàozhě bù jǔ yǐ.

     If the worthy are not faced with reward and the vicious are not faced with punishment, this means that the worthy are not encouraged and the vicious are not stopped.

   • 克告於君，君為來見也。嬖人有臧倉者沮君，君是以不果來也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     克告于君，君为来见也。嬖人有臧仓者沮君，君是以不果来也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Kè gào yú jūn, jūn wéi lái jiàn yě. Bìrén yǒu Zāng Cāng zhě jǔ jūn, jūn shìyǐ bù guǒ lái yě.

     I managed to inform the lord, and the lord was about to come see you. But there was a paramour named Zang Cang who stopped him, and the lord therefore ended up not coming.

2. to end; to terminate
3. to ruin; to corrupt
4. gloomy; glum; disheartened
5. to threaten; to intimidate

沮

1. Used in names of bodies of water.
2. a surname

沮

1. ^† moist; damp

沮

1. Only used in 涓沮.

沮

1. Only used in 沮陽／沮阳.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02174
• “沮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: そ (so)、ぞ (zo)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kan’yō-on: そ (so)
• Kun: はばむ (habamu, 沮む)

沮 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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沮: Hán Nôm readings: tử, tự

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