Memory phrase for the character: 墟

墟

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Meaning ruins, grave, mound

Pronunciation

xū

Explanation

Left: earth 土, right: void, emptiness 虚 (The tiger's 虍 hole 业 is void. )[业= hollow volcanic vent]

Mnemonic
 
The earth is void when with ruins and graves.

Radicals

土 earth, ground
虚 emptiness, void
虍 tiger
业 businessDerived from hill: 丘 or a volcano's peak with hollow vent/crater. Thus typically used as "hollow".
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 Vocabulary

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

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