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厄
戹
è
1. variant of [[厄<è>]]
Very Common • Top 3% ✏️ 4 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

厄
è
adversity, difficulty, distress
4 丶

Compound Words (19)

厄运
èyùn
bad luck
困厄
kùnè
in deep water
厄什塔
Èshéntǎ
Ørsta (city in Norway)
厄洛斯
Èluòsī
Eros (Cupid)
厄瓜多
Èguāduō
Ecuador (Tw)
厄利垂亚
Èlìchuíyà
Eritrea, NE Africa (Tw)
厄勒布鲁
Èlèbùlǔ
Örebro (city in Sweden)
厄勒海峡
ÈlèHǎixiá
Øresund
厄尔尼诺
ÈěrNínuò
El Niño, equatorial climate variation in the Pacific
厄瓜多尔
Èguāduōěr
Ecuador
基拉韦厄
Jīlāwéiè
Kilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano
尼厄丽德
Níèlìdé
Nereids (Greek sea nymphs, fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris)
莱旺厄尔
Láiwàngèěr
Levanger (city in Trøndelag, Norway)
卡尔斯鲁厄
Kǎěrsīlǔè
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
厄尔布鲁士
Èěrbùlǔshì
Mt Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains
厄立特里亚
Èlìtèlǐyà
Eritrea
弗莱威厄斯
Fúláiwēièsī
Flavius (Roman historian of 1st century AD)
厄尔尼诺现象
èěrnínuòxiànxiàng
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
约翰・厄普代克
Yuēhàn·Èpǔdàikè
John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner

Alternate Entries

厄
è
distressed

Metadata

Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
2,406
Word Frequency Rank
2,188 of 84,292

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