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坞

(bound form) low area within a surrounding barrier; (literary) small castle; fort

7 strokes Dict coverage rank #3,075 U+575E

How 坞 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

土 (semantic, “earth”) + 乌 (phonetic, wū)

components: 土 乌

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 乌

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 乌 (wū) — compare how they read:

CharacterPinyinMeaning
乌 sound component wū crow, rook, raven; black, dark
呜 wū the sound of someone crying or sobbing
钨 wū tungsten, wolfram
邬 wū various place names; surname

Words containing 坞

WordPinyinMeaning
好莱坞 Hǎo lái wù Hollywood; also pr. [Hao3lai2wu1]
宝莱坞 Bǎo lái wù Bollywood (film industry based in Mumbai, India)
山坞 shān wù nook; cove (in the hills)
花坞 huā wù sunken flower-bed
船坞 chuán wù dock; shipyard
扩展坞 kuò zhǎn wù docking station
坞站 wù zhàn docking station
拓展坞 tuò zhǎn wù (computing) hub; dock
坞壁 wù bì small fortress; fortified compound
坞堡 wù bǎo small fortress; fortified compound