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淤泥

yū ní

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

淤泥 (yū ní) means "silt; sludge; ooze". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 淤泥 means

1. silt
2. sludge
3. ooze

The characters in 淤泥

• 淤yūsilt; river sludge; to silt up
• 泥nímud; clay; paste

Words containing 淤泥

• 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

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