摴
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Meaning: dice
💡 Think 'shoo' – like shooing a dice cup onto the table.
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Character Story & Explanation
In a bustling night market in Chengdu, a group of friends gather around a table for a game of chopsticks dice. One player shakes a cup of dice and shouts '摴!' as he slams it down. This character, pronounced shū, specifically refers to the dice itself. It appears in classical texts like the Zhuangzi describing gambling games. While rarely used in modern Chinese, it survives in the compound 摴蒱 (chū pú), an ancient board game akin to backgammon.
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