ru2
surname Ru

ru2
to eat; (extended meaning) to endure; putrid smell; vegetables; roots (inextricably attached to the plant)

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拔毛连茹 拔毛連茹 ba2 mao2 lian2 ru2
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others; inextricably tangled together; Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.

拔茅连茹 拔茅連茹 ba2 mao2 lian2 ru2
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others; inextricably tangled together; Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.

拔茅茹 拔茅茹 ba2 mao2 ru2
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow; fig. also involving others; inextricably tangled together; Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.

菜茹 菜茹 cai4 ru2
greens; green vegetables

饭糗茹草 飯糗茹草 fan4 qiu3 ru2 cao3
lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom); fig. to live in abject poverty

含辛茹苦 含辛茹苦 han2 xin1 ru2 ku3
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship; to bear one's cross

梁静茹 梁靜茹 liang2 jing4 ru2
Fish Leong (1978-), Malaysian pop singer; also Leong Chui Peng or Jasmine Leong

茹古涵今 茹古涵今 ru2 gu3 han2 jin1
to take in (old and new experiences and sorrows)

茹荤 茹葷 ru2 hun1
to eat meat

茹荤饮酒 茹葷飲酒 ru2 hun1 yin3 jiu3
to eat meat and drink wine

茹苦含辛 茹苦含辛 ru2 ku3 han2 xin1
bitter hardship; to bear one's cross

茹藘 茹藘 ru2 lv2
Rubia cordifolia; Indian madder; munjit; also written 茜草

茹毛饮血 茹毛飲血 ru2 mao2 yin3 xue4
devour raw meat and fowl (of savages)

茹素 茹素 ru2 su4
to eat a vegetarian diet

茹痛 茹痛 ru2 tong4
to endure (suffering or sorrow)

茹鱼 茹魚 ru2 yu2
putrid fish

茹志鹃 茹誌鵑 ru2 zhi4 juan1
Ru Zhijuan (1925-1998), female novelist and politician

竹茹 竹茹 zhu2 ru2
bamboo shavings (Bambusa tuldoides) used in Chinese medicine