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簇

cù

Character

What 簇 means

1. bound formto cluster; to pile up
2. cluster; pile
3. classifier for bunches, clusters, piles etc

Example sentences

• 那是 2025 年 4 月 26 日。下午两点前，阳光明媚，万里无云。我来到我家附近的死胡同，静静地漫步。我欣赏着花园，这让我想起了道家思想：人如何影射天：樱花的簇簇花海，如同远处的星云。人其实不必走太远。我的白人邻居芭芭拉正站在她家车道上。她和丈夫肯恩正要出门去买鸡蛋。他们家很爱吃鸡蛋。
  It's the 26th of April of 2025. Before 14:00, a sunny blue-sky afternoon, I went to my neighbourhood's cul-de-sac to meditatively walk around and around there. I admired the gardens. They reminded me of Daoism: how the microcosm reflects the macrocosm: The puffs of sakura would be a nebula afar. One need not really travel too far. Barb my white neighbour was at her driveway. She and her husband Ken would be going out to buy eggs. They eat many eggs.

Words starting with 簇

• 簇拥cù yōngto crowd around; to escort
• 簇新cù xīnbrand-new; spanking new
• 簇射cù shèshower (radiation, particle, etc)
• 簇茎石竹cù jīng shí zhúboreal carnation or northern pink; Dianthus repens (botany)

Words containing 簇

• 花团锦簇huā tuán jǐn cùbrightly colored decorations (idiom); splendid
• 花簇huā cùbunch of flowers; bouquet
• 代数簇dài shù cùalgebraic variety (math.)
• 抗原决定簇kàng yuán jué dìng cù(immunology) antigenic determinant; epitope
• 高维代数簇gāo wéi dài shù cù(math) higher dimensional algebraic variety
• 攒簇cuán cùto gather closely together

Characters built on 竹

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

• 符fúmark; sign; talisman
• 筑zhùfive-string lute; Taiwan pr. zhú
• 簿bùa book; a register; account-book
• 笃dǔ(bound form) sincere; genuine; (bound form) (of an illness) serious
• 箍gūhoop; to bind with hoops
• 竺Zhúsurname Zhu; abbr. for 天竺; (archaic) Buddhism
• 笏hù(old) ceremonial tablet (held by officials at an audience)
• 簌sùused in 簌簌

Characters that look like 簇

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

• 薇wēiOsmunda regalis, a species of fern; Taiwan pr. wéi
• 霖líncontinued rain
• 麋mímoose; river bank
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
• 嬴Yíngsurname Ying
• 簌sùused in 簌簌

Sounds the same

Read cù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 促(bound form) of short duration; hasty; rapid; (bound form) to hasten; to hurry; to urge…
• 醋vinegar; jealousy (in love rivalry)
• 蹙to knit (one's brows); wrinkled (of brows); to hesitate
• 猝abruptly; suddenly; unexpectedly
• 蹴carefully; to kick; to tread on
• 瘯(skin disease)
• 踤to butt against
• 踧carefully; level; smooth
• 卒variant of 猝
• 蔟see 蚕蔟
• 䠞variant of 蹙
• 酢variant of 醋