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醋

cù

HSK 5 Character

What 醋 means

1. vinegar
2. jealousy (in love rivalry)

Example sentences

• 我们需要买醋。
  Wǒmen xūyào mǎi cù.
  We need to buy vinegar.
• 用拧檬汁代替醋。
  Use lemon juice instead of vinegar.
• 今天晚上吃糖醋排骨。
  Jīntiān wǎnshang chī tángcù páigǔ.
  I will eat sweet and sour spareribs tonight.
• 现在是 2025 年 8 月 3 日，露露岛。晚餐后，阳光下嫩绿的无花果，昨天腌制的甜醋，还有重新加热的阿尔弗雷多义面，我坐在阳台上，望着那棵针叶树。楼下静谧无声，街道空无一车，一片悠闲。我的冰镇青柠水在阳光下闪闪发光。最近，我常和那位法丹混血的 UFO 研究专家麦可聊天。我们谈论内心深处的事情：智慧型装置的迷醉，以及思维的衰退。他说，咖啡馆已经不再是咖啡馆了。人们忘记如何观察、如何驻足停留。我跟他讲起在日本的亚瑟，他会像僧侣凝视虚空一样，对着空白的墙壁发呆。最近，我让机器像诗人一样说话，它们真的做到了。它们模仿伊莉莎白时代的诗歌，以及塔加洛语民谣中那古老而忧伤的韵律。我沿着通往蒂姆霍顿咖啡店的小路采摘黑莓。我像个孩子似的喊道：「莫拉！」我的朋友莫拉，她血液里流着安地斯山脉的薄雾，她会笑的。今天，我买了黄柠檬。我本来想买青柠，但黄柠檬也可以。/ 黑莓的清晨 / 指尖残留无花果的痕迹 / 街道依然沉睡
  It's Lulu Island, 3 August 2025. After supper—green figs tender with sunlight, sweet vinegar from yesterday’s pickled jar, and reheated Alfredo—I sat on the balcony and watched the conifer. Stillness below, a street without cars, without haste. My lime water, iced, caught the light. Michael, the Franco-Danish ufologist, has been in my conversations lately. We speak of inner things: the trance of smart devices, the mind’s eye dwindling. He says cafés aren’t cafés anymore. People forget how to look, how to linger. I tell him of Arthur in Japan—how he'd stare into blank walls like a monk gazing at emptiness. Lately I ask machines to speak like poets, and they do. They mimic Elizabethan verses and the old wistful lilt of Tagalog ballads. I pick blackberries along the path to Tim Hortons. "¡Moras!" I shout like a child. My friend Mora, whose blood flows with Andes mist, would smile. Today, I bought lemons. I meant limes, but lemons are all right. / blackberry morning— / a fig's ghost on my fingers / and the street still sleeps

Words starting with 醋

• 醋意cù yìjealousy (in love rivalry)
• 醋劲cù jìnjealousy (in love)
• 醋酸cù suānacetic acid (CH3COOH); acetate
• 醋坛子cù tán zivinegar jar; (fig.) person of a jealous nature
• 醋海生波cù hǎi shēng bōlit. waves on a sea of vinegar; trouble caused by a jealous woman (idiom)
• 醋酸乙酯cù suān yǐ zhǐethyl acetate; acetidin
• 醋酸纤维cù suān xiān wéicellulose acetate (used for film and fiber)
• 醋栗cù lìgooseberry
• 醋磺内酯钾cù huáng nèi zhǐ jiǎacesulfame potassium; acesulfame K (an artificial sweetener)
• 醋劲儿cù jìn rerhua variant of 醋劲

Words containing 醋

• 吃醋chī cùto feel jealous (esp. because of a rival in love or affection)
• 糖醋táng cùsweet and sour
• 添油加醋tiān yóu jiā cù(lit.) to add oil and vinegar (idiom); (fig.) to embellish…
• 白醋bái cùwhite vinegar; plain vinegar
• 米醋mǐ cùrice vinegar
• 陈醋chén cùmature vinegar
• 食醋shí cùtable vinegar
• 香醋xiāng cùaromatic vinegar; balsamic vinegar
• 冰醋酸bīng cù suānglacial acetic acid
• 半瓶醋bàn píng cùdabbler; dilettante who speaks as though he were an expert
• 糖醋肉táng cù ròusweet and sour pork
• 糖醋鱼táng cù yúsweet and sour fish
• 芳香醋fāng xiāng cùbalsamic vinegar
• 加油添醋jiā yóu tiān cùto add interest (to a story); to sex up
• 油盐酱醋yóu yán jiàng cù(lit.) oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar (idiom); (fig.) life's daily necessities
• 争风吃醋zhēng fēng chī cùto rival sb for the affection of a man or woman; to be jealous of a rival in a love affair
• 糖醋里脊táng cù lǐ jǐsweet and sour pork
• 红醋栗hóng cù lìred currant
• 黑醋栗hēi cù lìblackcurrant
• 柴米油盐酱醋茶chái mǐ yóu yán jiàng cù chá(lit.) firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea…
• 半瓶子醋bàn píng zi cùsee 半瓶醋
• 争锋吃醋zhēng fēng chī cùvariant of 争风吃醋

Characters that look like 醋

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

• 醒xǐngto wake up; to be awake; to become aware
• 酷kùruthless; strong (e.g. of wine); (loanword) cool
• 酸suānsour; tart; sick at heart
• 鲸jīngwhale
• 醚míether
• 赭zhěocher

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…
• 簇(bound form) to cluster; to pile up; cluster; pile…
• 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