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盱

xū

Character

What 盱 means

1. anxious
2. stare

Other readings

盱 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Xūsurname Xu

Words starting with 盱

• 盱眙县Xū yí XiànXuyi, a county in Huai'an City 淮安市
• 盱眙Xū yísee 盱眙县

Characters built on 于

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

• 吁yùto implore
• 宇yǔroom; universe
• 迂yūliteral-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire
• 芋yùtaro; Colocasia antiquorum; Colocasia esculenta
• 盂yúbasin; wide-mouthed jar or pot
• 竽yúfree reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙
• 纡yūwinding; twisting
• 玗yúsemiprecious stone; a kind of jade

Sounds the same

Read xū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 需to require; to need; to want
• 须must; to have to; to wait
• 虚emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles
• 墟ruins; (literary) village; variant of 圩
• 嘘to exhale slowly; to hiss; hush!
• 吁sh; hush
• 戌11th earthly branch: 7-9 p.m., 9th solar month (8th October-6th November), year of the…
• 胥all; assist; to store
• 圩(dialect) country fair; country market
• 魆dim; dark; sudden; surreptitious
• 呴breathe on; yawn; roar
• 顼used in 颛顼; used in 顼顼; Taiwan pr. xù