adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 plump; fleshy
  2. 2 fertile; rich (of land)
  3. 3 rich and elegant (of writing or living)

Examples

Zhè piàn píngyuán tǔdì fēngyú, hěn shìhé gēngzhòng.
The plain has fertile soil, well suited to farming.
Tā shēncái fēngyú, liǎnjiá hóngrùn.
Her figure was full and her cheeks plump and rosy.

Tips

usage
The original sense was the fat on a belly, so it means 'plump' for a body and, by extension, 'fertile' for land and 'rich' for prose or living. Most common today in 丰腴 ('full-figured; richly fertile') and 膏腴 ('fat and fertile land').

Components

radical
ròu
flesh; meat (body radical)
This is the flesh radical ⺼ (a body-form, not the moon). It marks the word as about the body — here the fat on a plump belly, the literal root of the 'rich, fertile' senses.
phonetic
a moment; brief
Supplies the sound exactly: standalone reads yú, matching this character. It is purely phonetic, contributing no meaning.

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