墟

xū

Meanings

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xū

1.ruins
2.(literary) village
3.variant of 圩[xū]
4.country fair

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Wiktionary

1.ruin
2.village
3.fair; market

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰa): semantic 土 (“dirt”) + phonetic 虛 (OC *kʰa, *qʰa). ;"ruin" ;"market"

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Stroke order

Components

墟土虚

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Related words

废墟 ruins 墟里 village 殷墟 Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site 华屋丘墟 magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins 三个女人一个墟 three women makes a crowd