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凹

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adjective HSK 7 #11,493

Meanings

  1. 1 concave; sunken; dented

Examples

路面上有一个凹下去的坑。
Lùmiàn shàng yǒu yí gè āo xiàqù de kēng.
There's a sunken hole in the road surface.
凹凸不平的地面很难走。
Āotū bùpíng de dìmiàn hěn nán zǒu.
The uneven ground is hard to walk on.

Tips

memory
凹 literally looks like a dent — the character itself is concave in the middle. Its opposite 凸 (tū, 'convex') bulges outward. They're a perfect visual pair.

Stroke Order

凹 āo