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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yú | yu2
English translation
corner, cranny, niche

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun morpheme / 名语素 Míng yǔsù

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place

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

阝禺

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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shī zhī Dōng , zhī 西.

Loss of East corner, a corner of the West.

失鳕 fēi ; shī zhī 东隅,收之桑.

What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.

东街街道 jiēdào 办事处 bàn shì chù 位于 wèiyú 大同市 Dà tóng shì 东南 dōng nán .

East Street office is located in the southeast corner Datong.

bīng hěn nán 越过 yuè guò 尖锐 jiānruì de 角隅.

Ice has difficulty in negotiating sharp corners.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
corner
向隅 xiàng yú fig. to miss out on sth向隅 xiàng yú
察隅 Chá yú Zayü county, Tibetan: Rdza yul rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区 Lín zhī dì qū [Lín​zhī​dì​qū], Tibet察隅 Chá yú
海隅 hǎi yú coastal area海隅 hǎi yú
察隅县 Chá yú xiàn Zayü county, Tibetan: Rdza yul rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区 Lín zhī dì qū [Lín​zhī​dì​qū], Tibet察隅縣

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