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俣

yǔ

Character Traditional 俁

What 俣 means

1. big

Words containing 俣

• 水俣Shuǐ yǔMinamata (city in Japan)
• 水俣病shuǐ yǔ bìngMinamata disease…

Characters built on 吴

These share the phonetic component 吴 (Wú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 误wùmistake; error; to miss
• 娱yúto amuse
• 虞yú(literary) to expect; to anticipate; (literary) to be concerned about…
• 蜈wúused in 蜈蚣

Sounds the same

Read yǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 与(formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with…
• 语dialect; language; speech
• 雨rain
• 羽feather; 5th note in pentatonic scale
• 屿islet
• 予(literary) to give
• 宇room; universe
• 禹Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods; surname Yu
• 瑀(chalcedony)
• 圄prison; to imprison
• 敔percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the…
• 龉used in 龃龉