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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
fú | fu2
English translation
lotus; hibiscus

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Number of strokes

7

Traditional form

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Transliterated name / 音译人名 Yīnyì rénmíng

Learning hint

flower

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

艹夫

Semantic compound

cǎo

Phonetic compound

Explanation

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

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一连 yī lián diào shǎng Sān zhǐ Hǎi .

I caught three fish in a row.

45 suì de 达芙妮· luò 外貌 wài mào 言谈 yán tán dōu Huán xiàng 稚气未脱 zhì qì wèi tuō de 小女生

Daphne Farlow, at forty-five, still looked and spoke like an overgrown schoolgirl.

格拉芙轻松 qīngsōng 取胜 qǔ shèng 看上去 kàn shang qu 状态 zhuàngtài 极佳

Graf looked in awesome form as she cruised to an easy victory.

施特 fēi ·格拉芙1992 Nián 4赢得 yíng dé 温布尔登 Wēn bù ěr dēng 桂冠 guì guān

Steffi Graf claimed a fourth Wimbledon title in

打发走冷酷无情 lěng kù wú qíng de 说道 shuō dào

"Send her away," Eve said in a cold, hard voice.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
芙蓉 Fú róng hibiscus芙蓉 Fú róng
hibiscus
芙蓉区 Fú róng qū Furong district of Changsha city 長沙市|长沙市 Cháng shā shì [Cháng​shā​shì], Hunan芙蓉區
出水芙蓉 chū shuǐ fú róng as a lotus flower breaking the surface (idiom); surpassingly beautiful (of young lady's face or old gentleman's calligraphy)出水芙蓉 chū shuǐ fú róng

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