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岖

qū

Character Traditional 嶇

What 岖 means

1. used in {崎岖|qí qū}

Example sentences

• 巴苏陀兰的景色崎岖壮丽，别具一格，与我见过的南非其他地方都截然不同。
  The scenery of Basutoland is rugged and grand, with a beauty quite its own, and unlike any other part of South Africa I have seen.

Words containing 岖

• 崎岖qí qūrugged; craggy

Characters built on 区

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

• 驱qūto expel; to urge on; to drive
• 枢shū(bound form) hinge; pivot (usu. fig.)
• 躯qūhuman body
• 妪yùold woman; to brood over; to protect
• 伛yǔhunchbacked

Characters that look like 岖

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

• 屿yǔislet
• 艰jiāndifficult; hard; hardship
• 呕ǒuvomit
• 坻chíislet; rock in river
• 岷mínname of a river in Sichuan
• 坳àodepression; cavity; hollow; Taiwan pr. āo

Sounds the same

Read qū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 区area; region; district
• 趋to hasten; to hurry; to walk fast
• 屈bent; to feel wronged
• 驱to expel; to urge on; to drive
• 曲bent; crooked; wrong
• 躯human body
• 祛sacrifice to drive away calamity; to dispel; to drive away
• 蛆maggot
• 蛐used in 蛐蛐; used in 蛐蟮
• 呿to yawn
• 袪sleeve opening
• 黢black; dark