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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
Gū | Gu1
English translation
surname Gu
crime
sin
crime, offense, sin

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Xīn

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

Learning hint

bitter

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

古辛

Semantic compound

Xīn

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. Xīn represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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数百 shù bǎi míng 无辜 wúgū 平民 píng mín zāo 残杀 cán shā .

Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered.

对峙 duì zhì 双方 shuāngfāng dōu 只是 zhǐ shì zài 瞄准 miáozhǔn 射击 shèjī 无辜 wúgū de 旁观者 páng guān zhě

Both groups on either side are just picking off innocent bystanders.

科尔曼坚称 jiān chēng shì 无辜 wúgū de

Coleman has never wavered in his claim that he is innocent.

克里 Píng 坚称 jiān chēng 自己 zìjǐ shì 无辜 wúgū de

Crippen insisted on his innocence.

shuì 滥杀无辜 làn shā wú gū shì 不可 bù kě 原谅 yuánliàng de

He said the killing of innocent people was inexcusable.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
无辜 wúgū innocent無辜
辜负 gūfù to let down辜負
crime
辜振甫 Gū Zhèn fǔ Koo Chen-fu (1917-2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat辜振甫 Gū Zhèn fǔ
死有余辜 sǐ yǒu yú gū death cannot wipe out the crimes (idiom); dreadful crimes that rankled even after the perpetrator is dead死有餘辜
辜鸿铭 Gū Hóng míng Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views辜鴻銘

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Decomposition

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