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. [Pinyin]

     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. [Pinyin]

     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)‎^[1], 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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