芜
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overgrown with weeds
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 艸 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蕪
- Common rank
- #2,295
- Unicode
- U+829C
Formation & memory
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Words with 芜
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 芜湖市 | Wuhu, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省[An1 hui1 Sheng3] | |
| 莱芜区 | Laiwu, a district of Jinan City 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 平芜 | open grassland | |
| 芜词 | superfluous words | |
| 芜湖 | see 蕪湖市|芜湖市[Wu2 hu2 Shi4] | |
| 芜杂 | miscellaneous; mixed and disorderly (of writing); disordered and confusing; mixed-up and i… | |
| 莱芜 | see 萊蕪區|莱芜区[Lai2 wu2 Qu1] | |
| 莱芜 | field with dense growth of wild weeds | |
| 芜累 | mixed-up and superfluous | |
| 荒芜 | left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown; grown wild | |
| 去芜存菁 | lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff (i… | |
| 繁芜 | wordy; verbose; flourishing and thriving | |
| 芜繁 | convoluted | |
| 芜菁甘蓝 | rutabaga (vegetable) | |
| 芜驳 | disorderly; mixed-up; confused | |
| 芜鄙 | muddled and limited (of writing) | |
| 芜劣 | muddled and inferior (of writing) | |
| 榛芜 | wilderness; bushy and weedy; humble; inferior | |
| 芜秽 | to be overgrown with weeds | |
| 芜俚 | coarse and vulgar |
Sound family
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