厄
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distressed
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 厂 +2
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 厄
- Common rank
- #2,248
- Unicode
- U+5384
Formation & memory
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Words with 厄
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 厄立特里亚 | Eritrea | |
| 卡尔斯鲁厄 | Karlsruhe (city in Germany) | |
| 厄尔布鲁士 | (Mount) Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains, southwest Russia | |
| 厄尔尼诺现象 | El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean | |
| 厄瓜多尔 | Ecuador | |
| 约翰·厄普代克 | John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner | |
| 厄尔尼诺 | (meteorology) El Niño | |
| 尼厄丽德 | Nereids (Greek sea nymphs, fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris); Nereid, moon of Neptune | |
| 厄勒布鲁 | Örebro (city in Sweden) | |
| 厄利垂亚 | Eritrea (Tw) | |
| 弗莱威厄斯 | Flavius (Roman historian of 1st century AD) | |
| 厄洛斯 | Eros (Cupid) | |
| 厄瓜多 | Ecuador (Tw) | |
| 厄勒海峡 | Øresund; The Sound (strait between Denmark and Sweden) | |
| 基拉韦厄 | Kilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano | |
| 厄什塔 | Ørsta (city in Norway) | |
| 莱旺厄尔 | Levanger (city in Trøndelag, Norway) | |
| 厄运 | bad luck; misfortune; adversity | |
| 解厄 | (literary) to save from a calamity | |
| 厄境 | difficult situation |
Sound family
These characters use 厄 as their sound component — compare how they read.