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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
cù | cu4
English translation
bunch, cluster; crowd, swarm

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Number of strokes

17

Traditional form

Contains the radical

zhú

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

bamboo

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

⺮族

Semantic compound

zhú

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. zhú represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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摄影记者 shè yǐng jì zhě men de 长短 cháng duǎn 火炮 huǒ pào de 镜头 jìngtóu yǒng zhāo 我们 wǒmen dōu 圈圈 quān quan 照相 zhào xiàng .

Photographers from the press would crowd around us to take pictures.

牙发育 Chéng měi hán 2--35 duǒ Huā de 花簇 huā cù .

Axillary buds develop into flower cluster of 2 to 35 flowers each.

成熟 chéngshú de jiá 沿 yán jīng 分布 fēnbù zhāo , jīng 终止 zhōngzhǐ jiào 的荚.

At maturity, pods distributed along the stem which terminates in a rather dense cluster of pods.

zài 警察 jǐngchá de 簇拥 cù yōng xià , bèi rén bàn tuō bàn tái zhāo 走向 zǒu xiàng 等候 děnghòu 着的汽车 qì chē .

Surrounded by policemen, he was half - dragged and half - lifted toward the waiting car.

插图 chā tú shǎng shì 一簇 xìng 橙色 chéng sè de 玫瑰 méi guī 一共 yīgòng 5 duǒ

The illustration shows a cluster of five roses coloured apricot orange.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
crowded
簇拥 cù yōng to escort簇擁
花团锦簇 huā tuán jǐn cù splendid花團錦簇
簇新 cù xīn brand-new簇新 cù xīn
花簇 huā cù bouquet花簇 huā cù
攒簇 cuán cù to gather closely together攢簇

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