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瞿

qú

Character

What 瞿 means

1. startled
2. Taiwan pr. jù

Other readings

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

• Qúsurname Qu

Words starting with 瞿

• 瞿秋白Qú Qiū báiQu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of…
• 瞿塘峡Qú táng XiáQutang Gorge, 8 km long gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze in Chongqing 重庆
• 瞿昙Qú tánGautama, surname of the Siddhartha, the historical Buddha

Characters built on 隹

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

• 雇gùto employ; to hire; to rent
• 雏chú(bound form) chick; young bird
• 雎jūosprey; fish hawk

Characters that look like 瞿

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

• 翼yìwing; area surrounding the bullseye of a target; to assist
• 霞xiárose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset
• 襄xiāng(literary) to assist
• 麋mímoose; river bank
• 藜líname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 鬃zōngbristles; horse's mane

Sounds the same

Read qú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 渠(artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch; (literary) big; great; (dialect) he; she; him…
• 衢thoroughfare
• 佢(Cantonese) he, she, it
• 胊yoke
• 鼩used in 鼩鼱
• 磲used in 砗磲
• 劬labor
• 璩(jade ring)
• 蠼used in 蠼螋
• 癯thin; emaciated; worn
• 鸲(bound form, used in the names of various kinds of bird, esp. robins and redstarts)
• 蕖lotus