巫 (mou4 | wu1) : witch; wizard; sorcerer

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巫

mou4

wu1

[1] witch; wizard; sorcerer; shaman
[2] a Chinese family name

Default PoS:

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 7

Level: 3

Radical: 工 (#48)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

巫

This word has been viewed 9084 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:45

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巫婆 mou4 po4 wu1 po2 = a witch

巫師 mou4 si1 wu1 shi1 = wizard; magician

巫術 mou4 seot6 wu1 shu4 = witchcraft

女巫師 neoi5 mou4 si1 = witch

喃巫佬 naam4 mou4 lou2 = Taoist priest 粵

巫山 mou4 saan1 wu1 shan1 = Mt. Wu, on the Changjiang River by the Three Gorges

巫峽 mou4 haap6 wu1 xia2 = Wuxia Gorge, in the Changjiang River Three Gorges

巫溪 mou4 kai1 wu1 xi1 = Wuxi (place in Sichuan)

巫毒教 mou4 duk6 gaau3 wu1 du2 jiao4 = voodoo

巫巫茲拉 mou4 mou4 zi1 laai1 wu1 wu1 zi1 la1 = vuvuzela
See all 13 compounds (CantoDict reports 14 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 巫
Unicode code for this character: U+5deb (off-site link)

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