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芜

wú

Character Traditional 蕪

What 芜 means

1. overgrown with weeds

Words starting with 芜

• 芜劣wú lièmuddled and inferior (of writing)
• 芜秽wú huìto be overgrown with weeds
• 芜累wú lěimixed-up and superfluous
• 芜繁wú fánconvoluted
• 芜词wú císuperfluous words
• 芜鄙wú bǐmuddled and limited (of writing)
• 芜杂wú zámiscellaneous; mixed and disorderly (of writing); disordered and confusing
• 芜驳wú bódisorderly; mixed-up; confused
• 芜湖市Wú hú ShìWuhu, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省
• 芜菁wú jīngturnip
• 芜菁甘蓝wú jīng gān lánrutabaga (vegetable)
• 芜俚wú lǐcoarse and vulgar
• 芜湖Wú húsee 芜湖市

Words containing 芜

• 荒芜huāng wúleft to return to unchecked growth; overgrown; grown wild
• 平芜píng wúopen grassland
• 繁芜fán wúwordy; verbose; flourishing and thriving
• 莱芜lái wúfield with dense growth of wild weeds
• 莱芜区Lái wú QūLaiwu, a district of Jinan City 济南市
• 去芜存菁qù wú cún jīnglit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff…
• 榛芜zhēn wúwilderness; bushy and weedy; humble
• 蘅芜héng wúAsarum blumei (ginger plant)
• 蘼芜mí wúGracilaria confervoides (a fragrant herb)

Characters built on 无

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

• 抚fǔto comfort; to console; to stroke
• 妩wǔused in 妩媚
• 呒fǔperplexed; astonished
• 庑wǔsmall rooms facing or to the side of the main hall or veranda
• 怃wǔ(literary) to have tender affection for; (literary) discouraged; disappointed…

Characters that look like 芜

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

• 芝zhīZoysia pungens
• 吴Wúsurname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai…
• 茎jīngstalk; stem
• 芙fúused in 芙蓉
• 芫yánused in 芫荽
• 羌qiāngmuntjac; grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical)

Sounds the same

Read wú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 无not to have; no; none
• 吾(old) I; my
• 唔oh (expression of agreement or surprise); (Cantonese) not
• 毋(literary) no; don't; to not have
• 梧Sterculia platanifolia
• 蜈used in 蜈蚣
• 鼯flying squirrel
• 浯(name of several rivers in China)
• 俉used in 逢俉
• 峿name of a mountain
• 祦happy; used in historical names
• 郚place name