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脩

xiū

Character

What 脩 means

1. dried meat presented by pupils to their teacher at their first meeting (in ancient times)
2. dried; withered

Words containing 脩

• 束脩shù xiū(literary) salary of a private tutor

Sounds the same

Read xiū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 休to rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease
• 修to decorate; to embellish; to repair
• 羞shy; ashamed; shame
• 咻call out; jeer
• 馐delicacies
• 庥protection; shade
• 髹red lacquer; to lacquer
• 鸺used in 鸺鹠
• 茠to weed; to eradicate
• 貅see 貔貅

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• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiū correctly.
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