迂
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literal-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire; longwinded; circuitous
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 辵 +3
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 迂
- Common rank
- #2,450
- Unicode
- U+8FC2
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 迂
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 迂夫子 | pedant; old fogey | |
| 迂回曲折 | meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere; going… | |
| 迂气 | pedantry | |
| 迂回 | roundabout route; circuitous; tortuous; to outflank; indirect; roundabout | |
| 迂见 | absurd opinion; pedantic and unrealistic view | |
| 迂论 | unrealistic argument; high flown and impractical opinion | |
| 迂曲 | circuitous; tortuous; roundabout | |
| 迂远 | impractical | |
| 迂回奔袭 | to attack from an unexpected direction | |
| 迂磨 | sluggish; delaying | |
| 迂腐 | pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas | |
| 迂执 | pedantic and stubborn | |
| 迂缓 | dilatory; slow in movement; roundabout | |
| 迂阔 | high sounding and impractical; high flown nonsense | |
| 拘迂 | inflexible; stubborn | |
| 迂拘 | conventional; conservative | |
| 迂拙 | stupid; impractical | |
| 迂儒 | unrealistic; pedantic and impractical | |
| 迂滞 | high-sounding and impractical | |
| 迂讷 | overcautious; conservative and dull in conversation |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 于 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 于 sound part | at, in, on; to, from; alas! | |
| 宇 | building, house, room, structure; space, the universe | |
| 芋 | taro | |
| 盂 | basin; cup | |
| 吁 | alas; to sigh | |
| 竽 | free reed mouth organ | |
| 圩 | dike, embankment | |
| 盱 | eyes wide open; to gaze in astonishment | |
| 纡 | to twist, to turn, to bend; to distort | |
| 玗 | semi-precious stone | |
| 邘 | a state in Henan province |