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Meaning of 墟

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HSK 6
Pinyin:
English Definition: ruins; (literary) village; variant of ; country fair
Chinese Definition:
①有人住过而现已荒废的地方:废墟。殷墟。墟里(村落)。丘墟(a.废墟,荒地;b.坟墓)。
②土丘。
③毁坏,使成为废墟。
④同“圩”。
Total strokes: 15; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (earth) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ ] soil, earth; items made of earth
    • [ ] false; worthless, hollow, empty; vain
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Example Words
废墟HSK 6 fèi ruins
殷墟 yīn Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site
墟里 village
华屋丘墟 huá qiū magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins
三个女人一个墟 sān rén three women makes a crowd
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Example Sentences
1
The city wall was reduced to ruins by cannon fire.
2
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It means the ruins of the Shang Dynasty's capital.
3
I found a matching sock in the ruins.
4
An earthquake can turn a city into ruins in an instant.