墟 — Chinese character
墟
xū
high mound; hilly countryside; wasteland
- Pinyin
- xū
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 土 虚
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 虚
- Japanese
- 墟 as a kanji
Common words with 墟
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 废墟 (廢墟) | fèi xū | ruins |
| 墟里 | xū lǐ | village |
| 华屋丘墟 (華屋丘墟) | huá wū qiū xū | magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins |
墟 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 3
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.