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梧

wú

Character

What 梧 means

1. Sterculia platanifolia

Example sentences

• 2015 年 4 月 14 日，我步行前往列治文公共市场，先是爬上了外面的阶梯。市场内部宽敞的中庭式建筑，让我感觉彷佛置身于丛林之中。我当时已经有点饿了，便小跑到小吃摊「瓦船长」那里，点了一份面和一杯热茶。面里有鱿鱼、鱼和豆腐。我吃着吃着，一位穿着紫色 T 恤的英俊原住民男子从我身边走过。接着，一位身材魁梧、相貌英俊的犹太人也走了过来。几分钟后，我开始觉得口渴，于是在「QQ 珍珠奶茶与咖啡」买了一杯冰镇薄荷珍珠绿茶。我坐在阶梯旁慢慢品尝。附近坐着一家三口吃东西，男人是黑人，女人是东亚人，小孩是混血儿。我喝珍珠奶茶上瘾，于是在「花生家」又买了一杯。这次是冰镇青苹果珍珠绿茶，味道好极了。我搭扶梯下楼。去洗手间的路上，我注意到一个大水族箱，里面养着大概是体型巨大的阿拉斯加红帝王蟹，蟹腿上长满了藤壶。不知怎的，它们让我想起了外星生物。在书店里，我买了一本图文并茂的绿色植物学书籍，上面用的是汉字。一个月前我把它放在一个箱子上，现在还在那里。这本书 14 块钱。我搭扶梯上楼。我对珍珠奶茶还是有瘾，于是用剩下的零钱买了一杯冰荔枝珍珠绿茶。味道好极了，里面甚至还有白色的荔枝果肉。
  On the 14th of April of 2015, I walk to the Richmond Public Market, I first climbing the stairs outside. Inside, the wide atrium-like building is like a garden in a jungle surrounding, I imagine. Already quite hungry, I trot to Captain Wa, the food vendor, to get noodles with squid, fish, and tofu, as well as hot tea. As I eat, a handsome First Nations man in a purple T-shirt walks by. Then a handsome, stocky Jewish fellow walks by. A few minutes later, I begin to thirst, so I get a cold Mint Bubble Green Tea at the vendor QQ Bubble Tea and Coffee. I sit by the stairs to sip. A threesome family sits eating nearby, the man being black, the woman being Oriental, and the child being a hybrid. Addicted to Bubble Tea, I get another one, this time at Peanut's. It is a cold Green Apple Bubble Green Tea. It is delicious. I take the escalator down. On my way to the washroom, I notice a big aquarium full of probably giant red Alaskan king crabs with barnacles on their legs. They remind me of extraterrestrials, somehow. At the bookstore, I buy a heavily illustrated green botany book in sinograms. I left it on top of a box a month ago and it is still there. It is $14. I take the escalator up. Addicted to Bubble Tea, I spend my remaining coins on a cold Lychee Bubble Green Tea. It is delicious with even bits of white lychee flesh.

Words starting with 梧

• 梧桐wú tóngwutong (Firmiana platanifolia); Chinese parasol tree
• 梧州市Wú zhōu ShìWuzhou, prefecture-level city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region 广西壮族自治区
• 梧桐科wú tóng kēSterculiaceae, family of Malvale trees incl. Cacao, Cola and Firmiana
• 梧州Wú zhōusee 梧州市

Words containing 梧

• 魁梧kuí wútall and sturdy
• 法国梧桐fǎ guó wú tóngplane tree (Platanus x acerifolia)
• 苍梧县Cāng wú XiànCangwu, a county in Wuzhou City 梧州市
• 苍梧Cāng wúsee 苍梧县

Characters built on 吾

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

• 语yǔdialect; language; speech
• 晤wùto meet (socially)
• 悟wùto comprehend; to apprehend; to become aware
• 唔wúoh (expression of agreement or surprise); (Cantonese) not
• 捂wǔto enclose; to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears); to cover up (an affair)
• 痦wù(flat) mole
• 圄yǔprison; to imprison
• 寤wùto awake from sleep

Characters that look like 梧

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

• 框kuàngframe (e.g. door frame); casing; fig. framework
• 档dàng(bound form) shelves (for files); pigeonholes; (bound form) files…
• 桶tǒngbucket; (trash) can; barrel (of oil etc)
• 捂wǔto enclose; to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears); to cover up (an affair)
• 桓huánChinese soapberry (Sapindus mukurossi); big; pillar (old)
• 梏gùbraces (med.); fetters; manacles

Sounds the same

Read wú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 无not to have; no; none
• 吾(old) I; my
• 唔oh (expression of agreement or surprise); (Cantonese) not
• 毋(literary) no; don't; to not have
• 芜overgrown with weeds
• 蜈used in 蜈蚣
• 鼯flying squirrel
• 浯(name of several rivers in China)
• 俉used in 逢俉
• 峿name of a mountain
• 祦happy; used in historical names
• 郚place name