乌

烏
wū
#1,242 most
frequent character
crow, black

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

乌 is a shortened form of 烏, which pictured a crow; the original meaning was crow. From that it grew to mean black.

Drawn as: crow

乌 as a component in other characters

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Same Characters, Different Readings

乌Wu1
abbr. for country names that begin with 乌[wu1]: Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wu1ke4lan2], Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦[Wu1zi1bie2ke4si1tan3] etc

Homophones

屋wū
house, room
污wū
dirty, filthy, foul, corrupt

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