茹	269C10   20A.40-9	部居	畫數  10	ㄖㄨˊ [ru2]  (also ㄖㄨˋ [ru4] ).
N	(1)  Roots attached to the crown of a plant: 拔茅連茹 pull up the rushes with their roots. (2)  Vegetable food in gen. (3)  A surname.
V	Eat: 茹苦 suffer (“taste bitterness”); 茹荼 ditto; 茹葷 eat meats; 茹素 practise vegetarianism; 貪茹 to swallow greedily, to gorge oneself; 茹毛飲血 live the life of a savage (“eat animal flesh raw and drink its blood”).
Adj	Rotten and foul-smelling: 茹魚 putrid fish.
Words	1.茹筆 [ru2bi3], v.i., lick writing brush into shape.  2.茹痛 [ru2tong4], v.i., suffer, endure, put up with, bear up under (pains).