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圄

yǔ

Character

What 圄 means

1. prison
2. to imprison

Words containing 圄

• 囹圄líng yǔ(literary) prison
• 草满囹圄cǎo mǎn líng yǔlit. jails overgrown with grass (idiom); fig. peaceful society
• 身陷囹圄shēn xiàn líng yǔthrown into prison; behind bars

Characters built on 吾

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

• 语yǔdialect; language; speech
• 晤wùto meet (socially)
• 悟wùto comprehend; to apprehend; to become aware
• 唔wúoh (expression of agreement or surprise); (Cantonese) not
• 捂wǔto enclose; to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears); to cover up (an affair)
• 梧wúSterculia platanifolia
• 痦wù(flat) mole
• 寤wùto awake from sleep

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)
• 敔percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the…
• 俣big
• 龉used in 龃龉