Chinese Character Wiki
乌

wū

crow

Simplified form of 烏. Pictograph of a crow. Similar to 鳥.

Evolution

乌 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
乌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
乌 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
乌 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
乌 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

乌 (烏) 

wū

crow, rook, raven; black, dark; crow; black

乌 (烏) 

Wū

abbr. for Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wū​kè​lán]; surname Wu

Most common words with 乌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

乌

crow

乌克兰

Ukraine

乌龟

tortoise

乌鸦

crow

乌鲁木齐

Ürümqi or Urumqi prefecture level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区 in west China

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

呜 坞 钨 邬

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 11.6290% of movies

1497th most common character in movies

1244th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Traditional

烏

Unicode

U+4E4C


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