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淤

yū

Character

What 淤 means

1. silt
2. river sludge
3. to silt up
4. choked with silt
5. variant of {瘀|yū}

Words starting with 淤

• 淤泥yū nísilt; sludge; ooze
• 淤伤yū shāngbruising
• 淤塞yū sèchoked with silt; silted up
• 淤浅yū qiǎnto silt up
• 淤滞yū zhìsilted up; obstructed by silt; variant of 瘀滞
• 淤灌yū guànto warp (fertilize land by flooding)
• 淤积yū jīto silt up; silt; sediment
• 淤青yū qīngbruise; contusion
• 淤血斑yū xuè bānbruise; patch of bruising
• 淤血yū xuèvariant of 瘀血

Words containing 淤

• 清淤qīng yūto dredge; to remove sludge
• 出淤泥而不染chū yū ní ér bù rǎnlit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom); fig. to be principled and incorruptible
• 祛淤qū yūvariant of 祛瘀

Characters built on 於

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

• 瘀yūhematoma (internal blood clot); extravasated blood (spilt into surrounding tissue)…
• 菸yūto wither; dried leaves; faded

Characters that look like 淤

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

• 就jiù(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as…
• 赔péito compensate for loss; to indemnify; to suffer a financial loss
• 酌zhuóto pour wine; to drink wine; to deliberate
• 矫jiáoused in 矫情
• 掰bāito break off or break open sth with one's hands; (fig.) to break off (a relationship)
• 渝yú(literary) (of faith, affection etc) to change; to waver (usu. in 不渝

Sounds the same

Read yū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 迂literal-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire
• 瘀hematoma (internal blood clot); extravasated blood (spilt into surrounding tissue)…
• 菸to wither; dried leaves; faded
• 纡winding; twisting
• 箊bamboo with thin; wide leaves
• 於surname Yu; Taiwan pr. Yú