迂
literal-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire; longwinded; circuitous
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,450 U+8FC2
How 迂 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 (semantic, “walk”) + 于 (phonetic, yú)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 于
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 于 (yú) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 于 sound component | yú | at, in, on; to, from; alas! |
| 宇 | yǔ | building, house, room, structure; space, the universe |
| 芋 | yù | taro |
| 盂 | yú | basin; cup |
| 吁 | xū | alas; to sigh |
| 竽 | yú | free reed mouth organ |
| 圩 | xū | dike, embankment |
| 盱 | xū | eyes wide open; to gaze in astonishment |
| 纡 | yū | to twist, to turn, to bend; to distort |
| 玗 | yú | semi-precious stone |
| 邘 | yú | a state in Henan province |
Words containing 迂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 迂夫子 | yū fū zǐ | pedant; old fogey |
| 迂回曲折 | yū huí qū zhé | meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere; going… |
| 迂气 | yū qì | pedantry |
| 迂回 | yū huí | roundabout route; circuitous; tortuous; to outflank; indirect; roundabout |
| 迂见 | yū jiàn | absurd opinion; pedantic and unrealistic view |
| 迂论 | yū lùn | unrealistic argument; high flown and impractical opinion |
| 迂曲 | yū qū | circuitous; tortuous; roundabout |
| 迂远 | yū yuǎn | impractical |
| 迂回奔袭 | yū huí bēn xí | to attack from an unexpected direction |
| 迂磨 | yū mó | sluggish; delaying |
| 迂腐 | yū fǔ | pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas |
| 迂执 | yū zhí | pedantic and stubborn |
| 迂缓 | yū huǎn | dilatory; slow in movement; roundabout |
| 迂阔 | yū kuò | high sounding and impractical; high flown nonsense |
| 拘迂 | jū yū | inflexible; stubborn |
| 迂拘 | yū jū | conventional; conservative |
| 迂拙 | yū zhuō | stupid; impractical |
| 迂儒 | yū rú | unrealistic; pedantic and impractical |
| 迂滞 | yū zhì | high-sounding and impractical |
| 迂讷 | yū nè | overcautious; conservative and dull in conversation |