Shanghai

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

户 sound component

  Sound component

  

door

Evolution

沪 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
沪 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

Shanghai; river near Shanghai

() 

short name for Shanghai

Most common words with 沪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

short name for Shanghai

朱广沪

Zhu Guanghu (1949-), PRC soccer coach

沪上

at (or in) Shanghai

沪剧

Shanghai opera

沪宁线

Shanghai-Nanjing line

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2734th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+6CAA


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