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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
Wǔ | Wu3
English translation
surname Wu
squad of five soldiers
to associate with
five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
five, company of five; troops

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Number of strokes

6

Traditional form

Contains the radical

rén

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

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Five  people  rén also provides the pronunciation

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

亻五

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de :寻找 xúnzhǎo 交泰 wán 镇静 zhènjìng 安神 ān shén 作用 zuòyòng de 最佳 zuì jiā pèi 比例 bǐlì .

Objective To ascertain the best ratio of Tramadol compound injection.

队伍 duìwǔ 接到 jiē dào 命令 mìnglìng Xiàng Hòu zhuǎn .

The troops were ordered to face about.

我们 wǒmen de 队伍 duìwǔ 开始 kāishǐ hěn zāo , dàn 最后 zuìhòu 获胜 huò shèng , jìng shèng 两分.

Our team got off to a poor start but eventually carried the day and won by two clear goals.

dào 队伍 duìwǔ , xiān jiù 用心 yòng xīn 记住 jì zhu 各人 gè rén de míng xìng .

He had made it his business to learn their names immediately.

zhè Zhī 队伍 duìwǔ jiāng 全力以赴 quánlìyǐfù 夺取 duó qǔ 冠军 guànjūn .

The team is going all out to win the championship.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
队伍 duìwǔ ranks隊伍
to associate with
退伍 tuì wǔ to be discharged from military service退伍 tuì wǔ
落伍 luò wǔ to be outdated落伍 luò wǔ
入伍 rù wǔ to enlist入伍 rù wǔ
退伍军人 tuì wǔ jūn rén veteran退伍軍人
为伍 wéi wǔ to associate with為伍
配伍 pèi wǔ to blend two or more medicines配伍 pèi wǔ
伍子胥 Wǔ Zǐ xū Wu Zixu (-484 BC), powerful politician in Wu伍子胥 Wǔ Zǐ xū

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Decomposition

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