Shǔ
Pinyin

Definition

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Shǔ
  1. short name for Sichuan 四川[Sì chuān] province
  2. one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[Sān guó] after the fall of the Han dynasty

Character Decomposition

Compounds (7)

zhuó
  1. 1 bracelet
juān
  1. 1 to deduct
  2. 2 to show
  3. 3 bright and clean
  4. 4 glow-worm
  5. 5 galleyworm
  6. 6 millipede
zhú
  1. 1 walk carefully
  2. 2 to hesitate
  3. 3 to halter
  1. 1 skull
chù
  1. 1 to touch
  2. 2 to make contact with sth
  3. 3 to stir up sb's emotions

Related Words (12)

Shǔ guó
  1. 1 Sichuan
  2. 2 the state of Shu in Sichuan at different periods
  3. 3 the Shu Han dynasty (214-263) of Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 during the Three Kingdoms
Bā shǔ
  1. 1 Sichuan
  2. 2 originally two provinces of Qin and Han
lè bù sī Shǔ
  1. 1 indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty (idiom)
Shǔ
  1. 1 short name for Sichuan 四川[Sì chuān] province
  2. 2 one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[Sān guó] after the fall of the Han dynasty
Shǔ shān
  1. 1 Shushan district of Hefei city 合肥市[Hé féi shì], Anhui

Idioms (3)

巴山蜀水
Bā shān Shǔ shuǐ
  1. 1 mountains and rivers of Sichuan (idiom)
乐不思蜀
lè bù sī Shǔ
  1. 1 indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty (idiom)
蜀犬吠日
Shǔ quǎn fèi rì
  1. 1 lit. Sichuan dogs bark at the sun (idiom); fig. a simpleton will marvel at even the most common things
  2. 2 alludes to the Sichuan foggy weather where it's uncommon to see a sunny day

Sample Sentences

咳咳!四川气候温润,我们巴蜀女子确是皮肤白皙又甜美,个个像花一样,但是并不傻,岂能插在你们这些牛粪上!
hài hài !Sìchuān qìhòu wēnrùn ,wǒmen bāshǔ nǚzǐ què shì pífū báixī yòu tiánměi ,gègè xiàng huā yīyàng ,dànshì bìngbù shǎ ,qǐnéng chā zài nǐmen zhèxiē niúfèn shàng !
Ha ha! Sichuan has a humid climate. Our Sichuan women really have milky white skin, each one of them like flowers, but they're not naive, so I don't think they'd take if you shove them in a cow pie like you!
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没错,那叫“蜀”绣,是中国四大名绣之一。
méicuò ,nà jiào “shǔ ”xiù ,shì Zhōngguó sì dà míngxiù zhīyī 。
Yes, it's called, "Shu embroidery", it's one of the four most famous kinds of Chinese embroidery.
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三国演义》是一部历史小说。写的是魏、蜀、吴三个国家之间的战争。
Sānguóyǎnyì 》shì yī bù lìshǐ xiǎoshuō 。xiě de shì Wèi 、Shǔ 、Wú sān ge guójiā zhījiān de zhànzhēng 。
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a historical novel. It's about the war between the kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu.
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没错。曹操是魏王,诸葛亮是蜀国的军师。
méicuò 。Cáo Cāo shì Wèi wáng ,Zhūgě Liàng shì Shǔguó de jūnshī 。
That's right. Cao Cao was the king of the kingdom of Wei and Zhuge Liang was the military adviser for the kingdom of Shu.
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呵呵,他们都有输有赢。不过没有诸葛亮的话,蜀国早就完了。
hēhē ,tāmen dōu yǒu shū yǒu yíng 。bùguò méiyǒu Zhūgě Liàng dehuà ,Shǔguó zǎo jiù wán le 。
Heh heh, they both won some and lost some. But without Zhuge Liang, it would've been over for the kingdom of Shu a lot earlier.
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