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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
xù | xu4
English translation
kind, gentle, gracious

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

Contains the radical

huǒ

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

Learning hint

A warm  fire  huǒ also provides the pronunciation

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

昫灬

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yuàn nín 永远 yǒngyuǎn shì chūn de 使者 shǐ zhě , jiāng 和煦 hé xù de 阳光 yángguāng 洒满 sǎ mǎn 人间 rénjiān .

You are a spring angel bringing genial sunshine to the world.

zhè shì 和煦 hé xù de 早晨 zǎo chén 阳光普照 yáng guāng pǔ zhào

It is a mild morning and the sun is shining.

nuǎn de 气候 qìhòu jiāng 比目鱼 bǐ mù yú 引到 le 近海 jìn hǎi

Warm weather has attracted the flat fish close to shore.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
和煦 hé xù warm和煦 hé xù
balmy
温煦 wēn xù warm溫煦
煦暖 xù nuǎn to warm煦暖 xù nuǎn

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