墟
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ruins; (literary) village; variant of 圩[xu1]; country fair
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 土 +12
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 墟
- Common rank
- #3,860
- Unicode
- U+589F
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Formation & memory
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Words with 墟
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 三个女人一个墟 | three women makes a crowd | |
| 华屋丘墟 | magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins | |
| 墟里 | village | |
| 废墟 | ruins | |
| 殷墟 | Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安陽|安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 虚 — compare how they read.