"Xu" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xǔ to allow / to permit / to promise / to praise / somewhat / perhaps
 xū to require / to need / to want / necessity / need
 xū beard / mustache / feeler (of an insect etc) / tassel
 xù to continue / to replenish
 xù order / sequence / preface
 xū emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain
 xú slowly / gently
 xù beginnings / clues / mental state / thread
 xù to narrate / to chat
 xù to store up / to grow (e.g. a beard) / to entertain (ideas)
 xù to raise (animals)
 xū sh / hush
 xù dawn / rising sun
 xū ruins / (literary) village / variant of 圩[xu1] / country fair
 xū to exhale slowly / to hiss / hush!
婿 xù son-in-law / husband
 xù cotton wadding / fig. padding / long-winded
 xù variant of 恤[xu4]
 xù grieved / anxious
 xū all / assist / to store
 xǔ used in 栩栩[xu3 xu3] / jolcham oak (Quercus serrata)
 xǔ to brag / popular / lovely
 xū 11th earthly branch: 7-9 p.m., 9th solar month (8th October-6th November), year of the Dog / ancient Chinese compass point: 300°
 xù balmy / nicely warm / cozy / Taiwan pr. [xu3]
 xu clover, lucerne
 xù clover / lucerne / Taiwan pr. [su4]
 xù drunk
 xū (dialect) country fair / country market
 xù exhort / stimulate
 xū sound of flaying
 xù name of a river
 xū fine silk
 xū anxious / stare
 xù beguile / suddenly
 xù Alisma plantago
 xū (literary) ability and wisdom / scheme / stratagem
 xù to ditch / a moat
 xǔ official pay / sacrificial rice
 xǔ deceit / knowledge
 xǔ old variant of 許|许
 xū to boast / great / large
 xǔ spiritus / strain spirits
 xù beautiful
 xū black / see 黑魖魖[hei1 xu1 xu1]
 xū old variant of 虛|虚[xu1]
 xù Hypophthalmichthys moritrix
 xù to beguile with false stories
 xū elder sister
 xū dawn
 xū to snort
 xū fine silk
 xǔ cap of Yin dynasty
 xǔ chatter like old woman / cheerful
 xǔ abundant / bright / strain spirits
 xù still / silent
 xù exhort / stimulate
 xù to foster / to bear
 xù damage egg so it does not hatch
 xù Scirpis maritimus / small chestnut
 xū breathe on / yawn / roar
 xū mistress, concubine / weak
 xū (literary) to blow or breathe upon / happy
 xū bolt of a Chinese lock
 xǔ to breathe upon
 xù variant of 煦[xu4] / balmy / nicely warm / cozy
 xù earthern goblet stand also known as 反坫[fan3 dian4] (old) / old variant of 序
 xù variant of 婿, son-in-law / husband
 xù Japanese variant of 續|续
 xù variant of 緒|绪[xu4]
 xū suddenly / also pr. [hu1]
 xū variant of 欻[xu1]
 xū (dialect) elder sister (old)
 xū see T裇[T xu1]
𬣙 xū to boast / great / large
𦈡 xū multicolored silk / piece of silk torn in two, used to verify the holder's identity by matching up the two halves
 xū bound form used in 蜙蝑[song1 xu1]
 xǔ a kind of jade
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