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突兀

tū wù

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

突兀 (tū wù) means "lofty; towering; sudden; abrupt". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 突兀 means

1. lofty; towering
2. sudden; abrupt

The characters in 突兀

• 突tūto dash; to move forward quickly; to bulge
• 兀wù(literary) rising to a height; towering; (literary) bald; bare; (literary) still; yet

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