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乌

wū

HSK 6 Character Traditional 烏

What 乌 means

1. crow
2. black

Other readings

乌 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• wùused in {乌拉|wù la}; used in {乌拉草|wù la cǎo}
• Wūabbr. for country names that begin with {乌|wū}: Ukraine {乌克兰|Wū kè lán}, Uzbekistan {乌兹别克斯

Example sentences

• 爱屋及乌。
  Love me, love my dog.
• 乌龟死了。
  The turtle died.
• 天空乌云密布。
  The sky is full of dark clouds.
• 空中乌云密布。
  The sky is full of dark clouds.
• 我是乌克兰人。
  I'm Ukrainian.
• 乌龟没有牙齿。
  Turtles don't have teeth.

Words starting with 乌

• 乌黑wū hēijet-black; dark
• 乌鸦wū yācrow; raven
• 乌云wū yúnblack cloud
• 乌龟wū guītortoise; cuckold
• 乌克兰Wū kè lánUkraine
• 乌托邦wū tuō bāng(loanword) utopia
• 乌龙wū lóngblack dragon; unexpected mistake or mishap; own goal (soccer)
• 乌拉wù laleather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 乌拉草
• 乌烟瘴气wū yān zhàng qìbillowing smoke (idiom); foul atmosphere; (fig.) murky atmosphere
• 乌龙茶wū lóng cháoolong tea
• 乌鲁木齐市Wū lǔ mù qí ShìÜrümqi, prefecture-level city and capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 新疆维吾尔自治区
• 乌干达Wū gān dáUganda
• 乌兹别克斯坦Wū zī bié kè sī tǎnUzbekistan
• 乌拉圭Wū lā guīUruguay
• 乌合之众wū hé zhī zhòng(idiom) rabble; disorderly band
• 乌审Wū shěnUxin or Wushen banner in southwest Ordos prefecture 鄂尔多斯
• 乌日Wū rìWuri, a district of Taichung, Taiwan
• 乌有wū yǒu(literary) not to exist; nonexistent; illusory
• 乌气wū qìanger
• 乌尔Wū ěrUr (Sumerian city c. 4500 BC in modern Iraq)
• 乌语Wū yǔUzbek language
• 乌来区Wū lái QūWulai, a district of New Taipei City 新北市
• 乌加利wū jiā lìugali (aka nshima)
• 乌压压wū yā yāforming a dense mass

Words containing 乌

• 化为乌有huà wéi wū yǒu(idiom) to go up in smoke; to vanish
• 子虚乌有zǐ xū wū yǒu(idiom) to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination
• 俄乌É WūRusso-Ukrainian
• 巴乌bā wūbawu, a free reed wind instrument shaped like a flute and played transversally…
• 金乌jīn wūGolden Crow; the sun; the three-legged golden crow that lives in the sun
• 何首乌hé shǒu wūChinese knotweed (Polygonum multiflorum); fleeceflower root
• 义乌市Yì wū ShìYiwu, a county-level city in Jinhua City 金华市
• 反乌托邦fǎn wū tuō bāngdystopia
• 大乌苏里岛Dà Wū sū lǐ DǎoBolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River…
• 沙乌地阿拉伯Shā wū dì Ā lā bóSaudi Arabia (Tw)
• 河乌hé wū(bird species of China) white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
• 德乌帕Dé wū pàSher Bahadur Deuba (1946-), former prime minister of Nepal
• 爱屋及乌ài wū jí wūlit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected…
• 搞乌龙gǎo wū lóngto mess sth up
• 摆乌龙bǎi wū lóngto mess sth up; to screw up
• 寻乌县Xún wū XiànXunwu, a county in Ganzhou City 赣州市
• 类乌齐县Lèi wū qí XiànRiwoche, a county in Chamdo City 昌都市
• 缩头乌龟suō tóu wū guīa turtle that pulls its head in; (fig.) coward; chicken
• 丢乌纱帽diū wū shā màolit. to lose one's black hat; to be sacked from an official post
• 大乌鸦dà wū yāa raven
• 大嘴乌鸦dà zuǐ wū yā(bird species of China) large-billed crow (Corvus macrorhynchos)
• 小嘴乌鸦xiǎo zuǐ wū yā(bird species of China) carrion crow (Corvus corone)
• 达乌里寒鸦Dá wū lǐ hán yā(bird species of China) Daurian jackdaw (Coloeus dauuricus)
• 东兔西乌dōng tù xī wūlit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom); fig. the passage of time

Characters that look like 乌

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 与yǔ(formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with…
• 马mǎhorse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
• 写xiěto write
• 鸟niǎobird; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196)…

Sounds the same

Read wū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 污dirty; filthy; foul
• 屋(bound form) house; (bound form) room
• 於(literary) Oh!; Ah!
• 诬to accuse falsely
• 呜(onomatopoeia) for humming or whimpering
• 巫witch; wizard; shaman
• 钨tungsten (chemistry)
• 洿dig (a pond); stagnant water
• 圬to plaster; whitewash
• 杇to plaster; whitewash
• 邬surname Wu; ancient place name