noun HSK 7-9 #4,638

Meanings

  1. 1 fog
  2. 2 mist

Examples

Jīntiān zǎoshang yǒu hěn dà de wù.
There was very thick fog this morning.
Wù tài dà le, kàn bù qīng lù.
The fog is too thick; I can't see the road clearly.

Tips

memory
has the rain radical () on top — fog is like rain that stays in the air.

Components

radical
rain
Top depicts droplets falling from a cloud. As the indexing radical it puts in the family of weather/precipitation chars — (snow), (thunder), (frost), (dew). Fog is essentially suspended rain that hasn't condensed into drops, so the radical is conceptually exact.
phonetic
task; affair
Bottom supplies the sound (wù → wù, identical reading) — pure phonetic borrow with no semantic contribution. itself is the simplified form of and contributes only the sound. Same wù-reading also appears in 's homophone family with chars like , .

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