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俄

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suddenly; very soon

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Strokes
9
Radical
人 +7
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
俄
Common rank
#1,345
Unicode
U+4FC4

Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

How 俄 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

Components 亻 我

How to remember it

Russia · Heisig RSH #2097

人 person + miser

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 俄

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
白俄罗斯人 Bái é luó sī rén Byelorussian (person)
俄罗斯人 É luó sī rén Russian (person)
白俄罗斯 Bái é luó sī Belarus
俄克拉何马城 É kè lā hé mǎ chéng Oklahoma City
俄罗斯族 É luó sī zú Russian ethnic minority in China
俄巴底亚书 É bā dǐ yà shū Book of Obadiah
俄克拉何马 É kè lā hé mǎ Oklahoma, US state
俄国人 É guó rén Russian (person)
俄罗斯轮盘 É luó sī lún pán Russian roulette
俄罗斯帝国 É luó sī Dì guó Russian empire (1546-1917)
中俄关系 Zhōng É guān xì Sino-Russian relations
俄罗斯 É luó sī Russia
中俄北京条约 Zhōng É Běi jīng Tiáo yuē the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia
俄克拉荷马 É kè lā hé mǎ variant of 俄克拉何馬|俄克拉何马[E2 ke4 la1 he2 ma3]
日俄战争 Rì É Zhàn zhēng the war of 1904-1905 between Russia and Japan
俄罗斯方块 É luó sī Fāng kuài Tetris (video game)
中俄尼布楚条约 Zhōng É Ní bù chǔ Tiáo yuē Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia
沙皇俄国 Shā huáng É guó Tsarist Russia
俄中朝 É Zhōng Cháo Russia, China and North Korea
俄罗斯联邦 É luó sī Lián bāng Russian Federation, RSFSR

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 我 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
我 sound part wǒ I, me, my; our, us
鹅 é goose
峨 é lofty; the name of a mountain
蛾 é moth
哦 ò oh? really? is that so?
娥 é beautiful, pretty; good; surname
皒 é white
硪 wò a flat stone used as a mortar
莪 é mugwort, Artemisia
锇 é osmium