沤 — Chinese character
沤
ōu
to soak, to steep; sodden, soaked
- Pinyin
- ōu
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 氵 区
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 区
- Traditional
- 漚
Common words with 沤
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沤肥 (漚肥) | òu féi | to make fertilizer by steeping organic materials in water and leaving them to decompose; fertilizer produced by this method |
| 沤凼 (漚凼) | òu dàng | cesspool; compost pit |
| 沤步 (漚步) | òu bù | (Tw) dirty trick; unethical tactic (from Taiwanese 漚步, Tai-lo pr. [àu-pōo]) |
English words written with 沤
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.