(niǔ) - button, knot; New (in place names) in Mandarin
niǔTraditional: 纽
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Translation
button, knot; New (in place names)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the silk radical 纟gives the meaning of a knot or fastening, and 丑 (chǒu) supplies the sound. Hence a button or knot, and by transliteration the New of New York.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 纟(silk radical) + 丑 (chǒu, phonetic)
Stroke order
纽
Examples
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He lives in New York.
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The buttons on this garment look nice.
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New York is big.
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Please press this button.
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Her buttons are gold-coloured.
纽 (niǔ) means button or knot, and is used phonetically in 纽约 (Niǔ Yuē, New York).
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 纽.
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