淤 — Chinese character
淤
yū
mud, sediment; to clog up, to silt up
- Pinyin
- yū
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 氵 於
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 於
- Japanese
- 淤 as a kanji
Common words with 淤
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淤泥 | yū ní | silt; sludge |
| 淤积 (淤積) | yū jī | to silt up; silt |
| 淤塞 | yū sè | choked with silt; silted up |
| 淤青 | yū qīng | bruise; contusion |
| 淤血 | yū xuè | variant of 瘀血 (yū xuè) |
| 清淤 | qīng yū | to dredge; to remove sludge |
| 淤滞 (淤滯) | yū zhì | silted up; obstructed by silt |
| 淤浅 (淤淺) | yū qiǎn | to silt up |
| 淤伤 (淤傷) | yū shāng | bruising |
| 淤灌 | yū guàn | to warp (fertilize land by flooding) |
| 淤血斑 | yū xuè bān | bruise; patch of bruising |
| 祛淤 | qū yū | variant of 祛瘀 (qū yū) |
English words written with 淤
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.