呜 — Chinese character
呜
wū
the sound of someone crying or sobbing
- Pinyin
- wū
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 口 乌
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 乌
- Traditional
- 嗚
Common words with 呜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 呜呜 (嗚嗚) | wū wū | (interj) boo hoo |
| 呜咽 (嗚咽) | wū yè | to sob; to whimper |
| 呜呼 (嗚呼) | wū hū | alas; alack |
| 一命呜呼 (一命嗚呼) | yī mìng wū hū | to die (idiom); to breathe one's last |
| 呜呼哀哉 (嗚呼哀哉) | wū hū āi zāi | alas; all is lost |
| 呜呜祖拉 (嗚嗚祖拉) | wū wū zǔ lā | vuvuzela (horn) (loanword) |
English words written with 呜
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.