淤

silt; river sludge; to silt up; choked with silt; variant of 瘀[yu1]

11 strokes Dict coverage rank #2,877 U+6DE4

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 (semantic, “water”) + 於 (phonetic, wū)

components: 氵於

silt · Heisig RSH #1731

水 water + compass + umbrella + ice

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 於

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 於 (wū) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
於 sound component	wū	at, in, on; to, from; alas!
瘀	yū	hematoma, contusion
阏	è	to block, to obstruct, to stop up
菸	yū	tobacco, dried leaves; to fade

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
出淤泥而不染	chū yū ní ér bù rǎn	lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom); fig. to be principled and incorruptible
淤血斑	yū xuè bān	bruise; patch of bruising
清淤	qīng yū	to dredge; to remove sludge
淤血	yū xuè	variant of 瘀血[yu1 xue4]
淤青	yū qīng	bruise; contusion
淤伤	yū shāng	bruising
淤塞	yū sè	choked with silt; silted up
淤积	yū jī	to silt up; silt; sediment; ooze; slurry
淤泥	yū ní	silt; sludge; ooze
淤浅	yū qiǎn	to silt up
淤灌	yū guàn	to warp (fertilize land by flooding)
淤滞	yū zhì	silted up; obstructed by silt; variant of 瘀滯\|瘀滞[yu1 zhi4]
祛淤	qū yū	variant of 祛瘀[qu1 yu1]