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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
xù | xu4
English translation
to help, to relieve, to take pity on

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

Contains the radical

xīn

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

heart

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

忄血

Semantic compound

xīn

Phonetic compound

xuè

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. xīn represents the meaning and xuè represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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穿 chuān le jiàn 白色 bái sè T 显示 xiǎnshì shài Hēi de 肌肤 jī fū .

She wore a while T - shirt to show off her suntan.

de T Yuè Yuè le .

My T - shirt went all baggy in the wash.

科尔 Kē ěr hěn 喜欢 xǐhuan Dài de 钻石 zuànshí 首饰 shǒushì 即使 jíshǐ 穿 chuān de shì 牛仔裤 niúzǎikù 白色 bái sè T shān

Nicole loves wearing her diamonds, even with jeans and a white T-shirt.

mài T shān lái Qián 容易 róngyì 比领救济金 hǎo

T-shirts are a nice little earner and it's better than the dole.

这件上衣 shàng yī 可以 kěyǐ 系上 jì shang 纽扣 niǔ kòu 可以 kěyǐ 里面 lǐ miàn 套件 tào jiàn T敞开 chǎngkāi 穿 chuān

The top can be worn buttoned up or open over a T-shirt.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
anxiety
恤衫 xù shān shirt (loanword)恤衫 xù shān
抚恤金 fǔ xù jīn relief payment撫恤金
体恤 tǐ xù to empathize with體恤
抚恤 fǔ xù (of an organization that has a duty of care) to give financial support to relatives of sb who has died or suffered serious injury撫卹
体恤衫 tǐ xù shān T-shirt體恤衫
怜恤 lián xù to take pity憐恤
不恤 bù xù not to worry不恤 bù xù
赈恤 zhèn xù relief aid賑恤
不恤人言 bù xù rén yán not to worry about the gossip (idiom); to do the right thing regardless of what others say不恤人言 bù xù rén yán

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