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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lǜ | lü4
English translation
to filter, to strain

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Number of strokes

18

Traditional form

Contains the radical

shuǐ

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

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water

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

氵慮

Semantic compound

shuǐ

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. shuǐ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
过滤 guòlǜ to filter過濾
to strain
过滤器 guò lǜ qì filtering apparatus過濾器
滤波器 lǜ bō qì filter濾波器
滤过 lǜ guò to filter濾過
滤波 lǜ bō filtering radio waves (i.e. to pick out one frequency)濾波
滤液 lǜ yè filtrate濾液
滤器 lǜ qì filter濾器
滤纸 lǜ zhǐ filter paper濾紙
滤清器 lǜ qīng qì a filter濾清器
滤芯 lǜ xīn filter濾芯
滤饼 lǜ bǐng filtrate濾餅
滤嘴 lǜ zuǐ cigarette filter濾嘴
滤色镜 lǜ sè jìng color filter濾色鏡
滤清 lǜ qīng to filter and purify濾清

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