沃
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fertile; rich; to irrigate; to wash (of river)
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
fertile · Heisig RSH #1697
水 water + 夭 die young
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 沃
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 爱德斯沃尔 | Eidsvoll (city in Norway) | |
| 莱斯沃斯岛 | Lesbos (Greek island in the Aegean Sea 愛琴海|爱琴海[Ai4 qin2 Hai3]) | |
| 密尔沃基 | Milwaukee (city) | |
| 符拉迪沃斯托克 | Vladivostok (Russian port city, Chinese name: 海參崴|海参崴[Hai3 shen1 wai3]) | |
| 沃尔特·惠特曼 | Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist and journalist | |
| 加沃特 | (loanword) gavotte, French dance popular in 18th century | |
| 沃尔夫斯堡 | Wolfsburg | |
| 达沃斯 | Davos (Swiss ski resort); Davos world economic forum (WEF) | |
| 沃尔夫 | Wolf, Woolf (name) | |
| 博斯沃思 | Bosworth (name); Stephen Bosworth (1939-), US academic and diplomat, special representativ… | |
| 德沃夏克 | Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904), Bohemian composer, author of nine symphonies including the New… | |
| 沃克斯豪尔 | Vauxhall (English car brand and city) | |
| 曲沃县 | Quwo, a county in Linfen City 臨汾市|临汾市[Lin2 fen2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 爱玛·沃特森 | Emma Watson (1990-), British actress | |
| 特雷沃 | Trevor (name) | |
| 沃尔夫奖 | the Wolf Prize (for science and arts) | |
| 科茨沃尔德 | the Cotswolds (England) | |
| 沃伦·巴菲特 | Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner… | |
| 科索沃 | Kosovo | |
| 达沃斯论坛 | Davos world economic forum (WEF) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夭 — compare how they read.