乳
(bound form) breast; (bound form) milk; (bound form) newborn; suckling
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Dict coverage rank #627 U+4E73
How 乳 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
乚 (semantic, “hidden”) + 孚 (phonetic, fú)
components: 孚 乚
How to remember it
breast · Heisig RSH #2430
fledglings + fishhook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 孚
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 孚 (fú) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孚 sound component | fú | to brood over eggs; to have confidence |
| 浮 | fú | to drift, to float; mobile, temporary, unstable; reckless |
| 俘 | fú | prisoner of war; take as prisoner |
| 蜉 | fú | wasp; mayfly; large ant |
| 稃 | fū | chaff, husk |
| 莩 | fú | culm, stem; the membrane lining a stem |
| 殍 | piǎo | to starve to death |
| 脬 | pāo | bladder |
| 桴 | fú | beam, rafter |
| 郛 | fú | suburbs; city walls |
Words containing 乳
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乳白天空 | rǔ bái tiān kōng | whiteout |
| 乳山市 | Rǔ shān Shì | Rushan, a county-level city in Weihai City 威海市[Wei1 hai3 Shi4], Shandong |
| 视神经乳头 | shì shén jīng rǔ tóu | optic disk (terminal of the optic nerve on the retina) |
| 乳白色 | rǔ bái sè | milky white |
| 乳黄色 | rǔ huáng sè | cream (color) |
| 母乳代用品 | mǔ rǔ dài yòng pǐn | breast milk substitute |
| 乳山 | Rǔ shān | see 乳山市[Ru3 shan1 Shi4] |
| 乳头 | rǔ tóu | nipple |
| 乳儿 | rǔ ér | nursing infant; child less than one year old |
| 乳白 | rǔ bái | milky white; cream color |
| 乳源县 | Rǔ yuán Xiàn | see 乳源瑤族自治縣|乳源瑶族自治县[Ru3 yuan2 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |
| 乳化 | rǔ huà | to emulsify |
| 发乳 | fà rǔ | hair cream |
| 下乳 | xià rǔ | to promote lactation (TCM); (coll.) underboob |
| 乳制品 | rǔ zhì pǐn | dairy products |
| 南乳 | nán rǔ | fermented soybean curd |
| 乳光 | rǔ guāng | (mineralogy, physics) opalescence |
| 通乳 | tōng rǔ | (medicine) to unblock breastmilk flow (of a nursing mother with clogged milk ducts) |
| 乳化剂 | rǔ huà jì | emulsifier |
| 乳名 | rǔ míng | infant name; pet name for a child |