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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lǚ | lü3
English translation
to gather, to pluck; to rub off, to scrape

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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

Contains the radical

shǒu

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

扌寽

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用力 yòng lì jiàn 稀疏 xī shū de huī 头发 tóufa .

He ran his hand through his thinning gray hair.

特迪用自己 zìjǐ de 手指头 shǒu zhǐ tou le 一下 yīxià 浓密 nóng mì 蓬乱 péng luàn de 头发 tóufa

Teddy ran thick fingers through his unruly thatch of hair.

轻抚 qīng fǔ zhāo Píng de 头发 tóufa

I petted and smoothed her hair.

爸爸 bàba yòng de 一双大手 Píng le 地图 dìtú shǎng de 折痕 zhé hén

Papa flattened the creases of the map with his broad hands.

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