沪
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short name for Shanghai
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 水 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 沪
- Common rank
- #2,947
- Unicode
- U+6CAA
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Formation & memory
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Words with 沪
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沪宁铁路 | Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, a.k.a. Huning Railway | |
| 京沪高铁 | Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, completed in 2010; abbr. for 京滬高速鐵路|京沪高速铁路 | |
| 沪宁线 | Shanghai-Nanjing line | |
| 沪深港 | abbr. for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3], Shenzhen 深圳[Shen1 zhen4] and Hong Kong 香港[Xiang1 gang3… | |
| 朱广沪 | Zhu Guanghu (1949-), PRC soccer coach | |
| 沪上 | alternative name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3]; at (or in) Shanghai | |
| 沪语 | Shanghainese; Shanghai dialect | |
| 沪江 | alternative name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3] | |
| 沪综指 | Shanghai composite index (stock market index) | |
| 沪宁 | Shanghai and Nanjing | |
| 沪剧 | Shanghai opera | |
| 京沪 | Beijing and Shanghai |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 户 — compare how they read.