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朽

xiǔ

HSK 6 Character

What 朽 means

1. rotten

Example sentences

• 没有人是不朽的。
  Méiyǒu rén shì bù xiǔ de.
  No one of us is immortal.
• 不共戴天的敌人是不朽的朋友。
  Bùgòngdàitiān de dírén shì bù xiǔ de péngyou.
  Mortal enemies are immortal friends.
• 问题不是政治不纯洁，而是整个政治博弈已经腐朽。
  The trouble is not with impure politics, but that the whole game of politics is rotten.
• 我很荣幸能来到开罗这座不朽的城市，并受到两所著名学府的招待。千载以来，艾资哈尔大学一直担任着伊斯兰教育的指路明灯；百年以来，开罗大学亦一直是埃及全国的发展泉源。
  Wǒ hěn róngxìng néng láidào Kāiluó zhè zuò bù xiǔ de chéngshì, bìng shòudào liǎng suǒ zhùmíng xuéfǔ de zhāodài. qiān zài yǐlái, ài zī hā ěr dàxué yīzhí dānrèn zhe Yīsīlánjiào yù de zhǐlù míng dēng; bǎinián yǐlái, Kāiluó Dàxué yì yīzhí shì āijí quánguó de fāzhǎn quányuán.
  I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement.
• 我很荣幸能来到开罗这座不朽的城市，并受到两所着名学府的招待。千载以来，艾资哈尔大学一直担任着伊斯兰教育的指路明灯；百年以来，开罗大学亦一直是埃及全国的发展泉源。
  I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement.

Words starting with 朽

• 朽木xiǔ mùrotten wood
• 朽坏xiǔ huàirotten
• 朽烂xiǔ lànrotten
• 朽木不可雕xiǔ mù bù kě diāolit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom); fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a…
• 朽蠹xiǔ dùto decay and be eaten by worms etc; to overhoard grain so that it rots

Words containing 朽

• 腐朽fǔ xiǔrotten; decayed; decadent
• 不朽bù xiǔto last forever; eternal; enduring
• 永垂不朽yǒng chuí bù xiǔeternal glory; will never be forgotten
• 老朽lǎo xiǔdecrepit and behind the times; old; useless; (humble) I; me (used by the elderly)
• 枯朽kū xiǔwithered and rotten
• 衰朽shuāi xiǔdecaying; decrepit; aged and crumbling
• 化腐朽为神奇huà fǔ xiǔ wéi shén qílit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
• 颓朽tuí xiǔdecaying; rotten; decrepit
• 三不朽sān bù xiǔthe three imperishables, three ways to distinguish oneself that aren't forgotten by…

Characters that look like 朽

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

• 约yuēto make an appointment; to invite; approximately
• 何héwhat; how; why
• 村cūnvillage; (dialect) to scold; rustic; boorish
• 抑yìto restrain; to restrict; to keep down
• 扔rēngto throw; to throw away
• 刨bàocarpenter's plane; to plane (woodwork); to shave off

Sounds the same

Read xiǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 宿night; classifier for nights
• 糔to wash (rice etc)
• 滫(literary) water that was used to rinse rice and has become smelly; befouled water
• 潃old variant of 滫