朽

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rotten

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

The wood of a dying 丂 tree 木

Components 木丂

decayed · Heisig RSH #2283

木 tree + snare

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
化腐朽为神奇	huà fǔ xiǔ wéi shén qí	lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
朽木不可雕	xiǔ mù bù kě diāo	lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom); fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's…
三不朽	sān bù xiǔ	the three imperishables, three ways to distinguish oneself that aren't forgotten by histor…
永垂不朽	yǒng chuí bù xiǔ	eternal glory; will never be forgotten
不朽	bù xiǔ	to last forever; eternal; enduring
老朽	lǎo xiǔ	decrepit and behind the times; old; useless; (humble) I; me (used by the elderly)
朽木	xiǔ mù	rotten wood
腐朽	fǔ xiǔ	rotten; decayed; decadent; degenerate
朽坏	xiǔ huài	rotten
朽烂	xiǔ làn	rotten
衰朽	shuāi xiǔ	decaying; decrepit; aged and crumbling
枯朽	kū xiǔ	withered and rotten
颓朽	tuí xiǔ	decaying; rotten; decrepit
朽蠹	xiǔ dù	to decay and be eaten by worms etc; to overhoard grain so that it rots