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Character

乌

wū HSK 6
乌 wū HSK 6
  • 1. black
  • 2. crow (large black-feathered bird living in forests or fields)
  • 3. a surname
  • 4. (lit.) interrogative pronoun: where; how (used in rhetorical questions)
  • 5. see "乌孜别克族", an ethnic minority in China mainly distributed in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Words using 乌 as wū (2)
  • 1 乌龟 wū guī — turtle HSK 6
    • 乌 black/dark (describing the color of the turtle's shell)
    • 龟 turtle/tortoise (the base animal)
    Example

    这只乌龟爬得很慢。

    zhè zhī wū guī pá de hěn màn

    This turtle crawls very slowly.

  • 2 乌云 wū yún — dark cloud HSK 7
    Example

    天空中出现了乌云，马上就要下雨了。

    tiān kōng zhōng chū xiàn le wū yún mǎ shàng jiù yào xià yǔ le

    Dark clouds appeared in the sky, it's going to rain soon.

Structure & writing
乌 wū — black
乌 is a component in 1 characters
HSK 7
呜 wū onomatopoeia for wind, whistles, crying, etc.

乌 is an atomic character — it does not decompose further.

Stroke order