high mound

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

虚 sound component

  Sound component

  

void, false

Definitions

 

high mound; hilly countryside; wasteland; ruins; (literary) village; variant of [xū]; country fair

Most common words with 墟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

废墟

ruins

ruins

殷墟

Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安陽|安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʰ(r)a

khjo

hill, mound; abandoned city


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9222% of movies

2957th most common character in movies

2958th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+589F


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