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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
Yù | Yu4
English translation
surname Yu
place name
Pīnyīn Pronunciation
wèi | wei4
English translation
Artemisia japonica
luxuriant
resplendent
impressive
thick, luxuriant; resplendent, ornamental

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Number of strokes

14

Traditional form

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

Learning hint

grass

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

艹尉

Semantic compound

cǎo

Phonetic compound

wèi

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蔚蓝色 de 天空 tiānkōng Zhōng ,时而 shíér piāo Guò duǒ 白云 Bái yún .

Sometimes several clusters of white clouds drift across the blue sky.

蔚蓝 wèilán de 天空 tiānkōng 晴朗 qínglǎng yún .

The sky is quite blue and cloudless.

大海 dà hǎi 一片蔚蓝 wèilán 朵朵白云 Bái yún 飘过

The sea was blue, and white puffy clouds sailed by.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
luxuriant
蔚蓝 wèilán azure蔚藍
蔚然成风 wèi rán chéng fēng to become a general trend蔚然成風
蔚山 Wèi shān Ulsan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道 Qìng shàng nán dào [Qìng​shàng​nán​dào], South Korea蔚山 Wèi shān
蔚县 Yù xiàn Yu county in Zhangjiakou 張家口|张家口 Zhāng jiā kǒu [Zhāng​jiā​kǒu], Hebei蔚縣
蔚为大观 wèi wéi dà guān enchanting蔚為大觀
蔚起 wèi qǐ to flourish蔚起 wèi qǐ

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Decomposition

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