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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
xū | xu1
English translation
ruins
(literary) village
variant of wéi [xū]
country fair
high mound; hilly countryside; wasteland

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Number of strokes

14

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun morpheme / 名语素 Míng yǔsù

Learning hint

earth

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

土虚

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

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一些 yī xiē 救援 jiù yuán 人员 rényuán 医生 yīshēng bèi kùn zài 废墟 fèixū xià .

Some of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins.

其实 qíshí , de 安祥 ān xiáng 只是 zhǐ shì 点缀 diǎnzhuì zài 这片废墟 fèixū shǎng de 几朵野花 yě huā 而已 éryǐ .

His serenity was but the array of wild flowers niched in his ruin.

bèi mái zài 废墟 fèixū 下面 xià miàn 好几个小时 xiǎoshí

He was buried under the debris for several hours.

诺曼人 Nuò màn rén 建造 jiàn zào le 这座后来 hòulái zài 克伦威尔统治 tǒngzhì 时期 shíqī 变成 biàn chéng 废墟 fèixū de 城堡 chéngbǎo

The Normans built the castle which was reduced to ruins under Cromwell.

救援 jiù yuán 人员 rényuán 正在 zhèngzài 废墟 fèixū Zhōng 挖掘 wājué 搜寻 sōu xún 其他 qítā 受害者 shòu hài zhě

Rescue workers are digging through the rubble in search of other victims.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
废墟 fèixū ruins廢墟
ruins
殷墟 Yīn xū Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 Yīn shāng city at Anyang 安陽|安阳 Ān yáng in Henan province, a World Heritage site殷墟 Yīn xū

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