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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lǜ | lü4
English translation
to strain
to filter
to filter, to strain

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

Contains the radical

shuǐ

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

water

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

氵虑

Semantic compound

shuǐ

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. shuǐ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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卷心菜 juǎn xīn cài zhǔ kāi Hòu , yòng 锅把 Shuǐ diào .

When you've boiled the cabbage, strain off the water through a colander.

zài 适当 shì dàng 条件 tiáojiàn xià ,多层 Huán zuò 滤波器 lǜ bō qì .

Under appropriate conditions a multilayer may also be employed as a filter.

这种 zhè zhǒng 过程 guòchéng de 主要 zhǔyào 问题 wèntí shì de 堵塞 dǔsè .

This process suffers mainly from clogging the membrane.

Néng Wén dào 正在 zhèngzài 厨房 chúfáng zhǔ de 咖啡 kāfēi wèi ?

Can you smell the coffee perking in the kitchen?

chú 水中所有 suǒyǒu de 污物.

He filtered out [ off ] all the dirt in the water.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
过滤 guòlǜ to filter過濾
to strain
过滤器 guò lǜ qì filtering apparatus過濾器
滤波器 lǜ bō qì filter濾波器
滤过 lǜ guò to filter濾過
滤波 lǜ bō filtering radio waves (i.e. to pick out one frequency)濾波
滤液 lǜ yè filtrate濾液
滤器 lǜ qì filter濾器
滤纸 lǜ zhǐ filter paper濾紙
滤清器 lǜ qīng qì a filter濾清器
滤芯 lǜ xīn filter濾芯
滤饼 lǜ bǐng filtrate濾餅
滤嘴 lǜ zuǐ cigarette filter濾嘴
滤色镜 lǜ sè jìng color filter濾色鏡
滤清 lǜ qīng to filter and purify濾清

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Decomposition

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