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彧

yù

Character

What 彧 means

1. accomplished
2. elegant

Example sentences

• 其鄄城、东阿、范县三处，赖荀彧、程昱二人设计相连，死守城郭。
  At Juancheng, Dong'e, and Fan counties, thanks to the strategic planning of Xun Yu and Cheng Yu, the locations were connected, and the cities were defended to the death.

Words containing 彧

• 荀彧Xún YùXun Yu (163-212), brilliant strategist, advisor of Cao Cao in Three Kingdoms

Characters built on 或

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

• 域yùfield; region; area
• 阈yùthreshold
• 蜮yù(Chinese mythology) creature that lives underwater and spits sand to make people ill

Sounds the same

Read yù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 育to have children; to raise or bring up; to educate
• 遇(bound form) to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned; (bound form) to treat…
• 预to advance; in advance; beforehand
• 域field; region; area
• 寓(bound form) to reside; to inhabit; (bound form) residence; dwelling…
• 欲desire; appetite; passion
• 玉jade
• 豫happy; carefree; at one's ease
• 浴bath; to bathe
• 吁to implore
• 狱prison
• 誉to praise; to acclaim; reputation