(wù) - thing, object, matter in Mandarin
wùTraditional: 物
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Translation
thing, object, matter
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the ox radical 牜 (cattle) reflects an early link to livestock as possessions, while 勿 (wù) gives the sound; it broadened to mean thing or object generally.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 牜 (ox radical) + 勿 (wù, phonetic)
Stroke order
物
Examples
。
The food here is delicious.
。
I like watching animals.
。
I prepared a present for her.
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This is the food I like.
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There are many gifts on the table.
物 (wù) is the formal word for thing or object. It rarely stands alone but classifies categories of stuff: 食物 (food), 动物 (animal), 礼物 (gift).
Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 物.
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