entrenchment

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

乌 sound component

  Sound component

  

crow

Evolution

坞 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
坞 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
坞 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
坞 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

entrenchment, bank, low wall; dock; low wall

() 

variant of |[wù]

Most common words with 坞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

好莱坞

Hollywood

dock

船坞

(maritime) dock

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.9952% of movies

1550th most common character in movies

3157th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+575E


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