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鹜

wù

Character Traditional 鶩

What 鹜 means

1. duck

Words starting with 鹜

• 鹜舲wù língsmall boat

Words containing 鹜

• 趋之若鹜qū zhī ruò wùto rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable…
• 鸡鹜jī wùpetty or mean persons
• 刻鹄类鹜kè hú lèi wùto aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)…
• 驰鹜chí wùvariant of 驰骛

Characters built on 敄

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

• 骛wù(bound form) to rush about; to strive for
• 婺wùbeautiful

Characters that look like 鹜

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

• 简jiǎnsimple; uncomplicated; letter
• 禁jìnto prohibit; to forbid
• 慧huìintelligent
• 蔑mièto belittle; nothing
• 髦máobang (hair); fashionable; mane
• 赘zhuì(bound form) superfluous; (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's…

Sounds the same

Read wù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 务affair; business; matter
• 物(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…
• 误mistake; error; to miss
• 雾fog; mist
• 晤to meet (socially)
• 悟to comprehend; to apprehend; to become aware
• 勿do not
• 戊fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; fifth in order…
• 坞(bound form) low area within a surrounding barrier; (literary) small castle; fort
• 兀(literary) rising to a height; towering; (literary) bald; bare; (literary) still; yet
• 恶to hate; to loathe; ashamed
• 乌used in 乌拉; used in 乌拉草