墟 (xū): ruins, (literary) village, country fair
墟 (xū) is a Chinese character meaning “ruins.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 土 (semantic) and 虚 (phonetic). It ranks #2724 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 墟 earth. Its radical form 土 (earth) appears in many related characters such as 在 (zài, to exist), 地 (dì, earth, ground), 场 (chǎng, field, place).
Definitions
- ruins
- (literary) village
- country fair
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 废墟 | fèi xū | ruins |
| 三个女人一个墟 | sān gè nǚ rén yī gè xū | three women makes a crowd |
| 墟里 | xū lǐ | village |
| 华屋丘墟 | huá wū qiū xū | magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom) |
| 殷墟 | yīn xū | Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安陽|安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site |
墟 appears in 5 compound words: 20 as the first character, 80 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 墟 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
春天到了，农民开始翻墟播种。
chūn tiān dào le , nóng mín kāi shǐ fān xū bō zhǒng .
Spring has arrived, and farmers have begun plowing the fields and sowing seeds.
龙卷风过后受困废墟多日 流浪狗颈系铁链被压树下终获救被领养...
lóng juǎn fēng guò hòu shòu kùn fèi xū duō rì liú làng gǒu jǐng xì tiě liàn bèi yā shù xià zhōng huò jiù bèi lǐng yǎng . . .
哈米尼就在里面!官邸被“炸成废墟”焦黑照曝 30枚炸弹狂轰
hā mǐ ní jiù zài lǐ miàn ! guān 邸 bèi zhà chéng fèi xū jiāo hēi zhào pù 3 0 méi zhà dàn kuáng hōng
Hamini is inside! The official residence was "blown into ruins" and 30 bombs were exposed
一连串的爆炸使实验室成为废墟。
Yìliánchuàn de bàozhà shǐ shíyànshì chéngwéi fèixū.
A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins.
城堡如今已经成了废墟。
Chéngbǎo rújīn yǐjīng chéngle fèixū.
The castle is now in ruins.
以兖衣为褋兮，以黎邱为墟。
Yǐ Yǎn yī wèi 褋 xī, yǐ lí qiū wèi xū.
I use Yan garments as my plain robe, and turn Liqiu into ruins.
暴风雨过后，他们的房子成了废墟。
Bàofēngyǔ guòhòu, tāmen de fángzi chéngle fèixū.
After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.
这些废墟年代久远。
Zhèxiē fèixū niándài jiǔyuǎn.
These ruins are ancient.
Character Family
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