迂
yū
Pinyin

Definition

迂
 - 
yū
  1. literal-minded
  2. pedantic
  3. doctrinaire
  4. longwinded
  5. circuitous

Character Decomposition

Related Words (5)

迂腐
yū fǔ
  1. 1 pedantic
  2. 2 trite
  3. 3 inflexible
  4. 4 adherence to old ideas
迂回
yū huí
  1. 1 roundabout route
  2. 2 circuitous
  3. 3 tortuous
  4. 4 to outflank
  5. 5 indirect
  6. 6 roundabout
拘迂
jū yū
  1. 1 inflexible
  2. 2 stubborn
迂曲
yū qū
  1. 1 circuitous
  2. 2 tortuous
  3. 3 roundabout
迂气
yū qì
  1. 1 pedantry

Idioms (1)

迂回曲折
yū huí qū zhé
  1. 1 meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere
  2. 2 going around in circles

Sample Sentences

他嘱我路上小心，夜里警醒些，不要受凉。又嘱托茶房好好照应我。我心里暗笑他的迂；他们只认得钱，托他们直是白托！而且我这样大年纪的人，难道还不能料理自己么？唉，我现在想想，那时真是太聪明了！
tā zhǔ wǒ lùshang xiǎoxīn ，yèlǐ jǐngxǐng xiē ，bù yào shòuliáng 。yòu zhǔtuō cháfáng hǎohāo zhàoyīng wǒ 。wǒ xīnli àn xiào tā de yū ；tāmen zhī rènde qián ，tuō tāmen zhí shì bái tuō ！érqiě wǒ zhèyàng dà niánjì de rén ，nándào hái bùnéng liàolǐ zìjǐ ma ？ài ，wǒ xiànzài xiǎngxiang ，nàshí zhēn shì tài cōngming le ！
He told me to take care of myself on the way, to be alert at night, to not catch a cold. Yet again he told the waiter to look after me.I laughed at his silliness in my heart because those people cared only for money; and it was useless to ask a favor from them. Besides, is someone my age unable to look after myself? Now I think back, I really was smug and self assured.
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鲁迅：“很诧异天下竟有这样拘迂的老先生。”
LǔXùn ：“hěn chàyì tiānxià jìng yǒu zhèyàng jūyū de lǎoxiānsheng 。”
Lu Xun: " I am shocked to find there exists an old narrow-minded pedantic scholar like him."
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拘迂
jūyū
inflexible, stubborn
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