淤
yū

mud

淤 yū
silt up verb
to be blocked or choked with sediment

由于长期没有清理，水渠都淤住了。

yóu​yú cháng​qī méi​yǒu qīng​lǐ, shuǐ​qú dōu yū zhù le.

The canal is clogged because it hasn't been cleaned for a long time.

silt noun
silt or river sludge

这条小河的河底积满了厚厚的淤泥。

zhè tiáo xiǎo hé de hé dǐ jī mǎn le hòu​hòu de yū​ní.

The bottom of this small river is covered with a thick layer of silt.

Cross-References

Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,576th most common 4.87 per million
Movie subtitles
2,864th most common 4.23 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.05 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
2.24 per million

Details
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6DE4

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)