儒

rú
#2,003 most
frequent character
scholar, Confucian

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

儒 has 亻 person as its picture part and 需 xū as its sound part. It first meant an act tied to danger and sacrifice. The sense Confucian was borrowed for its sound, and from there came learned and scholarly.

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如rú
as, if, according to

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