兀

wù
adjective #26,803

Meanings

  1. 1 towering; rising to a height
  2. 2 bald; bare
  3. 3 still; yet

Examples

HSK 6
Yī zuò wùlì de shānfēng chūxiàn zài yǎnqián.
A towering peak appeared before their eyes.
HSK 6
Wùzì zài nàlǐ děng zhe, bùkěn líqù.
He still stood there waiting, unwilling to leave.

Tips

usage
兀 is a classical/literary character rarely used in modern speech on its own. It appears in compounds like 兀立 (to stand upright/towering), 兀自 (still/yet), and is sometimes a surname.

Components

radical
儿 rén
person; legs (variant of 人)
Bottom 儿, the indexing radical, the bottom-position form of 人 showing the two legs of a standing figure. Together with the flat top, the whole character pictures a person whose head has been pressed level, the original 'bare-headed, towering, eminent' sense. Same radical groups 兀 with 元 (origin), 兄 (elder brother), 充 (fill).
ideograph
一 yī
one; flat top
Top stroke 一, an abstract marker indicating 'high and level'. Not the number 'one' in meaning, but the same horizontal stroke used as a position indicator placed above a figure. Classically read as a horizontal above a person, signifying that the top is flat and high, the picture of something towering with a sliced-off crown.

Stroke Order

兀 wù