Sūn Chǔ 孫楚 (c. 218–293 CE; zì Zǐjīng 子荊) was a Western Jìn 西晉 official and writer known for his prickly independence and literary wit. Native of Tài’yuán 太原. Grandson of the Wèi general Sūn Zī 孫資, he had a difficult career due to his arrogant personality — he reportedly once said he wanted “to pillow his head on a stone and rinse his mouth with a running spring” (inverting a conventional hermit idiom) and refused to admit the error. Despite this he held various posts including work as a court drafter and provincial assignments. His biography is in Jìnshū 晉書 56. Several anecdotes in Shìshuō xīnyǔ 世說新語 preserve his wit. His reconstructed collected works appear as KR4b0030.