吾

wú

Radical: 口 pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

吾 decomposes into the following components:

五 口

Semantic component: 口; phonetic component: 五.

Words containing 吾

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 吾.

伊吾
yī wú
Yiwu county in Kumul prefecture 哈密地區|哈密地区[Ha1 mi4 di4 qu1], Xinjiang
吾人
wú rén
吾等
wú děng
吾辈
wú bèi
支吾
zhī wú
to resist
伊吾县
yī wú xiàn
Yiwu county in Kumul prefecture 哈密地區|哈密地区[Ha1 mi4 di4 qu1], Xinjiang
执金吾
zhí jīn wú
维吾尔
wéi wú ěr
Uighur ethnic group of Xinjiang
吾尔开希
wú ěr kāi xī
Örkesh Dölet (1968-), one of the main leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
宫崎吾朗
gōng qí wú lǎng
Miyazaki Gorō (1967-), Japanese film director
支吾其词
zhī wú qí cí
(idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth
支支吾吾
zhī zhī wú wú
to hem and haw

Related characters (radical 口)

Characters that share the radical 口.

卟 口 古 句 另 叨 叩 只 叫 召 叭 叮 可 台 叱 史 右 叵 叶 号 司 叹 叻 叼

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