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墟

xū

HSK 6 Character

What 墟 means

1. ruins
2. literaryvillage
3. variant of {圩|xū}
4. country fair

Example sentences

• 这些废墟年代久远。
  Zhèxiē fèixū niándài jiǔyuǎn.
  These ruins are ancient.
• 城堡如今已经成了废墟。
  The castle is now in ruins.
• 这座城市成为了一片废墟。
  The city fell into ruins.
• 以兖衣为褋兮，以黎邱为墟。
  I use Yan garments as my plain robe, and turn Liqiu into ruins.
• 一连串的爆炸使实验室成为废墟。
  Yīliánchuàn de bàozhà shǐ shíyànshì chéngwéi fèixū.
  A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins.
• 暴风雨过后，他们的房子成了废墟。
  Bàofēngyǔ guòhòu, tāmen de fángzi chéngle fèixū.
  After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.

Words starting with 墟

• 墟里xū lǐvillage

Words containing 墟

• 废墟fèi xūruins
• 华屋丘墟huá wū qiū xūmagnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins
• 殷墟Yīn xūYinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site
• 三个女人一个墟sān gè nǚ rén yī gè xūthree women makes a crowd

Characters built on 虚

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

• 嘘xūto exhale slowly; to hiss; hush!
• 觑qùto spy; watch for
• 歔xūto snort

Characters that look like 墟

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

• 播bō(bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc)…
• 榜bǎngnotice or announcement; list of names; public roll of successful examinees
• 镀dùto plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated
• 缠chánto wind around; to wrap round; to coil
• 塘tángdyke; embankment; pool or pond
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟

Sounds the same

Read xū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 需to require; to need; to want
• 须must; to have to; to wait
• 虚emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles
• 嘘to exhale slowly; to hiss; hush!
• 吁sh; hush
• 戌11th earthly branch: 7-9 p.m., 9th solar month (8th October-6th November), year of the…
• 胥all; assist; to store
• 圩(dialect) country fair; country market
• 魆dim; dark; sudden; surreptitious
• 呴breathe on; yawn; roar
• 顼used in 颛顼; used in 顼顼; Taiwan pr. xù
• 旴dawn