隅
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corner
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 阜 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 隅
- Common rank
- #3,273
- Unicode
- U+9685
Formation & memory
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How 隅 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
阝 meaning “place” + 禺 sound ()
Components 阝 禺
Words with 隅
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 失之东隅，收之桑榆 | to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom); to compensate later for one's earlier loss;… | |
| 举隅法 | synecdoche | |
| 察隅县 | Zayu, a county in Nyingchi City 林芝市[Lin2 zhi1 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 局促一隅 | to be cramped in a corner (idiom) | |
| 海隅 | coastal area | |
| 向隅而泣 | (idiom) to weep in solitude | |
| 负隅顽抗 | (idiom) to put up fierce resistance despite being surrounded; to stubbornly refuse to admi… | |
| 向隅 | (lit.) to face the corner; (fig.) to miss out on sth | |
| 察隅 | see 察隅縣|察隅县[Cha2 yu2 Xian4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 禺 — compare how they read.