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Meaning of 淤

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Pinyin:
English Definition: silt; river sludge; to silt up; choked with silt; variant of
Chinese Definition:
①水道被泥沙阻塞:淤塞。淤积。淤滞。淤埋。
②河沟中沉积的泥沙:淤泥。淤溉。
③同“瘀”。
Total strokes: 11; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (water) conveys the meaning.
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Example Words
淤积 to silt up; silt; sediment; ooze; slurry
淤泥 silt; sludge; ooze
淤塞 choked with silt; silted up
出淤泥而不染 chū ér rǎn lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom); fig. to be principled and incorruptible
淤滞 zhì silted up; obstructed by silt; variant of 瘀滞
More: 淤* | *淤 | *淤*
Example Sentences
1
绿
The bruises look even worse than they didyesterday. Some of them are greenish.
2
Apparently he had fallen down a set of stairs and was covered in scrapes and bruises, so I took him back to my apartment to clean him up.
3
They have binders of school records and police reports, along with photos documenting the bruises and black eyes.
4
Through the pass-through window into the kitchen, three line cooks, one with stitches along his upper lip, are watching Marla and me and whispering with their three bruised heads together.
5
2002
While watching a football game at the White House in 2002, Bush choked on a pretzel and fell off his couch, leading to the bruises seen in this photo.