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淤

yū

mud

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 於 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

於 sound component

於  Sound component

yú, yū, wū

  

in

Evolution

淤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
淤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

淤  

yū

mud, sediment; clog up, silt up; silt; river sludge; to silt up; choked with silt; variant of 瘀[yū]

Most common words with 淤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

淤

silt

淤泥

silt

淤血

clotted blood

淤积

silt

淤塞

silted up

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4187% of movies

2868th most common character in movies

3576th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DE4

Shuowen

“淤，澱滓濁泥。从水，於聲。”


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