墟

xū

ruins

(literary) village; variant of 圩[xu1]; country fair

earth (土) + emptiness/sound (虚) = ruins, deserted ground

土 grounds the meaning in land that has been lost or emptied out. 虚 contributes the sound xū and also happens to carry a sense of emptiness, which quietly reinforces the image of a desolate, abandoned place.

土+虚→墟

土EarthSemantic

虚EmptyPhonetic

战争结束后，那座城市变成了一片废墟。

zhàn zhēng jié shù hòu， nà zuò chéng shì biàn chéng le yī piàn fèi xū。

after the war ended, that city turned into a stretch of ruins.

考古学家在废墟中发现了很多古代的东西。

kǎo gǔ xué jiā zài fèi xū zhōng fā xiàn le hěn duō gǔ dài de dōng xi。

archaeologists discovered many ancient things among the ruins.

Words with 墟

三个女人一个墟

sān gè nǚ rén yī gè xū

three women makes a crowd

墟里

xū lǐ

village

废墟

fèi xū

ruins

殷墟

yīn xū

Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安陽|安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site

华屋丘墟

huá wū qiū xū

magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins

More characters with 土

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