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霧
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷
雾
🇨🇳

fog

HSK 10 N1
Nature →Weather
wù
ム、ボウ、ブ
きり
무
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 務 represents the sound.
Components
Traditional (霧)
雨 rain+ 務 tasks =
霧 fog
雨 Meaning component
yǔ rain
務 Phonetic component
tasks
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Simplified (雾)
雨 rain+ 务 affairs =
雾 fog
雨 Meaning component
yǔ rain
务 Phonetic component
wù affairs
affairs, business
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Notes
Similar Characters
屚 to leak雷 thunder需 need电 electric (simp)雩 offer sacrifice for rain雪 snow雯 cloud patterns雲 cloud (trad/jp)雳 crashing (simp)零 zero雹 hail電 electricity (trad/jp)雾 mist (simp)霁 to clear up after rain (simp)霂 fine霄 sky霅 thunder霆 a sudden peal of thunder震 quake霈 torrential rains
Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Clerical
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
霧
Regular
Modern
Chinese
雾 / 霧 [wù]
fog; mist; CL:場|场[cháng],陣|阵[zhèn]
Japanese
霧 きり 同音

noun

  1. fog; mist
  2. spray
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
濃い霧のために私たちの飛行機は遅れた。
A thick fog delayed our flight.
Japanese Names
霧 きり
Kiri female given namesurname
CHINESE WORDS (50)
烟雾 [yān​wù] #6,333
smoke
迷雾 [mí​wù] #17,999
dense fog
雾气 [wù​qì] #20,782
fog
喷雾 [pēn​wù] #17,431
mist spray
浓雾 [nóng​wù] #28,084
thick fog
云雾 [yún​wù] #38,904
clouds and mist
喷雾器 [pēn​wù​qì] #26,336
nebulizer
薄雾 [bó​wù] #34,224
mist
大雾 [dà​wù] #31,963
thick fog
吞云吐雾 [tūn​yún​tǔ​wù] #42,164
to swallow clouds and blow out fog (idiom)
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JAPANESE WORDS (53)
霧散 [むさん] #10,873
dispersing
⭐ 黒い霧 [くろいきり] #26,432
thick fog (of suspicion)
⭐ 濃霧 [のうむ] #32,375
heavy fog
⭐ 朝霧 [あさぎり] #40,174
morning fog
⭐ 霧雨 [きりさめ] #41,614
drizzle
霧に包まれる [きりにつつまれる] #45,638
to be shrouded in mist
霧状 [きりじょう] #47,727
mist form
夜霧 [よぎり] #48,339
night fog
深い霧 [ふかいきり] #49,369
thick fog
雲散霧消 [うんさんむしょう] #50,537
vanishing like mist
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KOREAN WORDS (4)
농무
dense fog
분무기
sprayer
오리무중
being foggy; being in the dark
운무
cloud and fog