HSK 5 · Nature

雾 wù “fog” in Chinese

Traditional 霧

What 雾 means

  1. fog
  2. mist

Measure word 场 cháng or 阵 zhèn · 一场雾 yì cháng wù

How to say 雾

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale雾wù4th tone, falling

雾 in a sentence

  1. 今天雾很大。

    Jīntiān wù hěn dà.

    It’s very foggy today.

    Sentence #13556505 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 太阳一出来，雾就散了。

    Tàiyáng yì chūlai, wù jiù sàn le.

    As soon as the sun came out, the fog cleared.

    Sentence #349285 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我们在雾中迷了路。

    Wǒmen zài wù zhōng mí le lù.

    We got lost in the fog.

    Sentence #799258 from Tatoeba

How 雾 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 雾 (wù) with each of its parts in a different colour
雾wùfog
  • 雨rain · yǔMeaning part
  • 务affairs · wùSound part

雨 hints at the meaning (rain); 务 (wù) hints at the sound. Compare it with wù.

How to write 雾

雾 13 strokes

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雾 (wù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 雾 (wù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 雾

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FAQs

雾 (wù) means “fog” or “mist”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wù: wù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 雾 is written 霧. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 场 (cháng) or 阵 (zhèn). For example, one fog is 一场雾 (yì cháng wù).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 雾 from the suggestions. Typing wu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
雾 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.