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栩

xǔ

Character

What 栩 means

1. used in {栩栩|xǔ xǔ}
2. jolcham oak (Quercus serrata)

Words starting with 栩

• 栩栩如生xǔ xǔ rú shēngvivid and lifelike (idiom); true to life; realistic
• 栩栩xǔ xǔvivid
• 栩栩生辉xǔ xǔ shēng huīresplendent

Characters built on 羽

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

• 诩xǔto brag; popular; lovely
• 翥zhùto soar

Characters that look like 栩

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

• 栅zhàfence; also pr. shān
• 钼mùmolybdenum (chemistry)
• 绷bēngto draw tight; to stretch taut; to tack (with thread or pin); (bound form) embroidery hoop
• 桐tóngtree name (variously Paulownia, Firmiana or Aleurites)
• 掴guāito slap; also pr. guó
• 翎língtail feathers; plume

Sounds the same

Read xǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 许to allow; to permit; to promise
• 诩to brag; popular; lovely
• 湑abundant; bright; strain spirits
• 醑spiritus; strain spirits
• 冔cap of Yin dynasty
• 糈official pay; sacrificial rice
• 喣to breathe upon
• 姁chatter like old woman; cheerful
• 珝a kind of jade
• 鄦surname Xu; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–221 BC)