墟
xū
Pinyin

Definition

墟
 - 
xū
  1. ruins
  2. (literary) village
  3. variant of 圩[xū]
  4. country fair

Character Decomposition

Related Words (3)

废墟
fèi xū
  1. 1 ruins
墟
xū
  1. 1 ruins
  2. 2 (literary) village
  3. 3 variant: 圩 xū
  4. 4 country fair
殷墟
Yīn xū
  1. 1 Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安陽|安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site

Idioms (1)

华屋丘墟
huá wū qiū xū
  1. 1 magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins

Sample Sentences

啧啧啧，这场大火可真惨，死伤了不少人，整幢楼都变成一片黑乎乎的废墟了！
zézézé ，zhè chǎng dàhuǒ kě zhēn cǎn ，sǐshāng le bùshǎo rén ，zhěng zhuàng lóu dōu biànchéng yīpiàn hēihūhū de fèixū le ！
This fire is so tragic. A lot of people died. The entire building has been burned into blackened ruins!
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