淤

Information about character(s)

Radical: 水
Radical Strokes: 4
Additional Strokes: 8
Total Strokes: 11

Pronunciation

Pinyin: yū
Cantonese: jyu1
JapaneseKun: DORO
JapaneseOn: YO O
Korean: E
Vietnamese: ứa

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: mud, sediment; clog up, silt up

CE-Dict: silt/river sludge/to silt up/choked with silt/variant of 瘀[yu1]

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.to become silted up
2.silt
3.stasis

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: silt

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: silt

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《水部》淤澱滓，濁泥。从水於聲。

康熙字典文字版 【巳集上】【水字部】淤
【唐韻】【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】𠀤依據切，音飫。【說文】澱滓濁泥也。【玉篇】水中泥草。【杜篤·論都賦】畎瀆潤淤。　又【揚子·方言】水中可居者曰洲，三輔謂之淤。　又【廣韻】央居切【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】衣虛切，𠀤音於。義同。　又【集韻】或从土作𡌧。通作閼。【通鑑】秦鑿涇水爲渠，注塡閼之水。【集覽曰】閼，依據反。或作𡌧。通作淤。　又與飫通。【馬融·廣成頌】擺牡班禽，淤賜犒功。【註】淤與飫同。

CF-Dict: s'envaser/s'ensabler/vase/limon

Han-De-Dict: Schlamm, versanden (u.E.) (S)