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菸

yū

Character

What 菸 means

1. to wither
2. dried leaves
3. faded
4. withered

Characters built on 於

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

• 淤yūsilt; river sludge; to silt up
• 瘀yūhematoma (internal blood clot); extravasated blood (spilt into surrounding tissue)…

Characters that look like 菸

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

• 莉lìused in 茉莉; used in the transliteration of female names
• 疲píweary
• 菱líng(bound form) water caltrop (Trapa species)
• 葵kuíused in the names of various herbaceous plants
• 筵yánbamboo mat for sitting
• 荻díAnaphalis yedoensis (pearly everlasting reed); used in Japanese names with phonetic value…

Sounds the same

Read yū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 淤silt; river sludge; to silt up
• 迂literal-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire
• 瘀hematoma (internal blood clot); extravasated blood (spilt into surrounding tissue)…
• 纡winding; twisting
• 箊bamboo with thin; wide leaves
• 於surname Yu; Taiwan pr. Yú