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偓

wò
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) constrained; petty (in 偓促)
  2. 2 (in names) used for the immortal Wo Quan

Examples

偓促谈于廊庙兮。
Wòchuò tán yú lángmiào xī.
Petty-minded people chatter in the halls of state.

Tips

history
Never used alone in modern Chinese. It survives only in the classical binome 偓促 (narrow-minded, fussy) and in the legend of the immortal 偓佺. The right side 屋 is the phonetic for the wò sound.
register
Archaic and onomastic only — found in the 《楚辞》 and old name records, not in speech.

Components

radical
亻 rén
person
The person radical 亻 is 人 in left-side form. It marks 偓 as describing a person's narrow, fussy disposition.
phonetic
屋 wū
house; room
On the right, 屋 supplies the sound — its old reading gives the wò pronunciation here; it contributes no 'house' meaning to the word.

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Stroke Order

偓 wò