虞
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(literary) to expect; to anticipate; (literary) to be concerned about; to be apprehensive; (literary) to deceive; to dupe
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 虍 +7
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 虞
- Common rank
- #2,399
- Unicode
- U+865E
Formation & memory
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Words with 虞
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 安全无虞 | safe and secure | |
| 衣食无虞 | not having to worry about food and clothes (idiom); provided with the basic necessities | |
| 上虞区 | Shangyu, a district of Shaoxing City 紹興市|绍兴市[Shao4 xing1 Shi4], Zhejiang | |
| 虞城县 | Yucheng, a county in Shangqiu City 商丘市[Shang1 qiu1 Shi4], Henan | |
| 虞世南 | Yu Shinan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one … | |
| 虞应龙 | Yu Yinglong, Yuan dynasty scholar, collaborated on the geographical encyclopedia Dayuan Da… | |
| 不虞 | unexpected; eventuality; contingency; not worry about | |
| 无虞 | to be free from danger or cause for concern | |
| 上虞 | see 上虞區|上虞区[Shang4 yu2 Qu1] | |
| 虞城 | see 虞城縣|虞城县[Yu2 cheng2 Xian4] | |
| 尔虞我诈 | lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. each tries to outwit the other; deceit … | |
| 尔诈我虞 | see 爾虞我詐|尔虞我诈[er3 yu2 wo3 zha4] | |
| 虞喜 | Yu Xi, Chinese astronomer (c. 270-345), known for discovering the earth's precession | |
| 虞翻 | Yu Fan (164–233), Eastern Wu scholar, official, and commentator on the I Ching | |
| 不虞匮乏 | to have ample supplies (or money etc) | |
| 无虞匮乏 | see 不虞匱乏|不虞匮乏[bu4 yu2 kui4 fa2] | |
| 堪虞 | worrisome; precarious; to be at risk | |
| 虞舜 | Yu Shun, one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4] | |
| 驺虞 | zouyu (mythical animal); official in charge of park animals; name of an archaic ceremonial… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 吴 — compare how they read.