沃
fertile; rich; to irrigate; to wash (of river)
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,572 U+6C83
How 沃 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 夭 (phonetic, yāo)
How to remember it
fertile · Heisig RSH #1697
水 water + 夭 die young
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 夭
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 夭 (yāo) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夭 sound component | yāo | young, energetic; to die young |
| 妖 | yāo | strange, weird, supernatural; bewitching, enchanting, seductive |
| 跃 | yuè | to skip, to jump, to frolic |
| 袄 | ǎo | coat, jacket, outerware |
| 饫 | yù | full, satiated; to confer |
| 岙 | ào | island |
Words containing 沃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 爱德斯沃尔 | Ài dé sī wò ěr | Eidsvoll (city in Norway) |
| 莱斯沃斯岛 | Lái sī wò sī Dǎo | Lesbos (Greek island in the Aegean Sea 愛琴海|爱琴海[Ai4 qin2 Hai3]) |
| 密尔沃基 | Mì ěr wò jī | Milwaukee (city) |
| 符拉迪沃斯托克 | Fú lā dí wò sī tuō kè | Vladivostok (Russian port city, Chinese name: 海參崴|海参崴[Hai3 shen1 wai3]) |
| 沃尔特·惠特曼 | Wò ěr tè · Huì tè màn | Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist and journalist |
| 加沃特 | jiā wò tè | (loanword) gavotte, French dance popular in 18th century |
| 沃尔夫斯堡 | Wò ěr fū sī bǎo | Wolfsburg |
| 达沃斯 | Dá wò sī | Davos (Swiss ski resort); Davos world economic forum (WEF) |
| 沃尔夫 | Wò ěr fū | Wolf, Woolf (name) |
| 博斯沃思 | Bó sī wò sī | Bosworth (name); Stephen Bosworth (1939-), US academic and diplomat, special representativ… |
| 德沃夏克 | Dé wò xià kè | Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904), Bohemian composer, author of nine symphonies including the New… |
| 沃克斯豪尔 | Wò kè sī háo ěr | Vauxhall (English car brand and city) |
| 曲沃县 | Qǔ wò Xiàn | Quwo, a county in Linfen City 臨汾市|临汾市[Lin2 fen2 Shi4], Shanxi |
| 爱玛·沃特森 | Ài mǎ · Wò tè sēn | Emma Watson (1990-), British actress |
| 特雷沃 | Tè léi wò | Trevor (name) |
| 沃尔夫奖 | Wò ěr fū jiǎng | the Wolf Prize (for science and arts) |
| 科茨沃尔德 | Kē cí wò ěr dé | the Cotswolds (England) |
| 沃伦·巴菲特 | Wò lún · Bā fēi tè | Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner… |
| 科索沃 | Kē suǒ wò | Kosovo |
| 达沃斯论坛 | Dá wò sī lùn tán | Davos world economic forum (WEF) |