How to Write 渚 (zhǔ) — Meaning “Islet or small island in a river”

Picture a person (者) standing on a tiny patch of land surrounded by water (氵). Imagine this person shouting 'This is my 渚 (islet)!' to remember both the shape and the meaning.

Write the water radical 氵 first with three compact strokes. The right side 者 has several horizontal strokes; keep them evenly spaced and not too wide to avoid making the character unbalanced.

洁 means 'clean' and uses 吉 on the right, while 渚 means 'islet' and uses 者. 洄 means 'eddy' or 'to go against the current' and uses 回, which looks like a square, unlike the more open shape of 者 in 渚.

渚 appears most often in classical poetry and geographic names for small river islands, such as in the term 烟渚 (misty islet). It is rarely used in daily conversation and is not part of the HSK vocabulary.

Common words containing 渚 include: 江渚 (jiāng zhǔ) — river islet; 小渚 (xiǎo zhǔ) — small islet; 烟渚 (yān zhǔ) — misty islet; foggy riverbank.