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xiāo

mournful, desolate; common Artemisa

🔤 Pictophonetic: 肃 (solemn) provides meaning, 艹 provides pronunciation
HSK 11 strokes Common (19%)
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艹
cǎo
grass, weed, plant, herb
肃
sù
to pay respects; solemn, reverent
⿱艹肃 i

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Component Tree i

cǎo
艹
grass, weed, plant, herb
📷 Pictographic: Simplified form of 艸; grass sprouting
3 strokes
sù
肃
to pay respects; solemn, reverent
8 strokes HSK 5

Words Using 萧 (24)

xiāo
萧 ↗
miserable / desolate / dreary / Chinese mugwort
Xiāo
萧 ↗
surname Xiao
xiāotiáo
萧条 ↗
bleak / desolate / (economic) depression or slump
jīngjìxiāotiáo
经济萧条 ↗
economic depression
chéngyěXiāoHé,bàiyěXiāoHé
成也萧何，败也萧何 ↗
lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin [[韓信|韩信<HánXìn>]] being made Grand General [[大將軍|大将军<dàjiāngjūn>]] / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
Xiāobónà
萧伯纳 ↗
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist and writer
XiāoQián
萧乾 ↗
Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator
XiāoYīshān
萧一山 ↗
Xiao Yishan (1902-1978), Modern historian of the Qing dynasty
páixiāo
排萧 ↗
panpipe
dàxiāotiáo
大萧条 ↗
the Great Depression (1929-c. 1939)
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