吾 — Chinese character
吾
wú
I, my, our; to resist, to impede
- Pinyin
- wú
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 五 口
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 五
- Japanese
- 吾 as a kanji
Common words with 吾
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吾人 | wú rén | (literary) we; us |
| 支支吾吾 | zhī zhī wú wú | to hem and haw; to stall |
| 吾辈 (吾輩) | wú bèi | (literary) we; us |
| 支吾 | zhī wú | to resist; to deal with |
| 支吾 | zhī wu | to respond evasively or vaguely; to elude |
| 支吾其词 (支吾其詞) | zhī wú qí cí | (idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth; evasive |
| 吾等 | wú děng | (literary) we; us |
| 执金吾 (執金吾) | zhí jīn wú | (Han dynasty) official in command of an army responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital |
English words written with 吾
吾 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 22 · Analects 113 · Art of War 31 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 128 · Zhuangzi 421 · Great Learning 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 6
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 4
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 13
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 16
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 21
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 25
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 29
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 37
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 42
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.