Chinese Character Wiki
烏

wū

crow

Pictograph of a crow. Similar to 鳥.

Evolution

烏 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
烏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
烏 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
烏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

乌 (烏) 

wū

crow, rook, raven; black, dark; crow; black

乌 (烏) 

Wū

abbr. for Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wū​kè​lán]; surname Wu

Most common words with 烏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

乌

crow

乌克兰

Ukraine

乌龟

tortoise

乌鸦

crow

乌鲁木齐

Ürümqi or Urumqi prefecture level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区 in west China

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

嗚 塢 鎢 摀

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ʔ]ˤa

'u

wū

oh!

*qˤa

'u

wū

crow, raven; black

*ʔˤa

'u

wū

烏桓, 烏丸 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.6290% of movies

1497th most common character in movies

1244th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

乌

Unicode

U+70CF

Shuowen

“烏，孝鳥也。象形。孔子曰：‘烏，呼也。’取其助气，故以為烏呼。，古文烏，象形。於，象古文烏省。”


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