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Meaning of 呜

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(Trad.: 嗚)
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English Definition: (onom.) for humming or whimpering
Chinese Definition:
①(呜呼)a。文言叹词;b。旧时祭文常用以表示叹息,后借指死亡,如“一命呜呜”。均亦作“乌呼”、“於呼”、“於戲”。
②象声词:汽笛呜呜地响。她呜呜地哭。
Total strokes: 7; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (mouth) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ kǒu ] mouth; entrance, gate, opening
    • [ ] crow, rook, raven; black, dark
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Example Words
呜咽 to sob; to whimper
呜呼 alas; alack; welladay; wellaway; to die
呜呼哀哉 āi zāi alas; all is lost
一命呜呼 mìng to die (idiom); to breathe one's last; to give up the ghost
呜呜 (interj) boo hoo
More: 呜* | *呜 | *呜*
Example Sentences
1
The train zoomed past.
2
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I take a burner , and I burn away this thread.
3
I bought lollipops and a toot-toot bugle. I started for home.
4
If they ever knew Dobby was here... (shivery) oooo!
5
The unit emits a thin scream as steel teeth slash laminated plastic and the rose is shredded into a thousand fragments.