乌 wū crow
crow; rook; raven; dark
How it came to be
象形 · Pictogram
A drawing of the thing it means.
The bronze form is a bird, drawn much like the ordinary character for bird.
用法
- Means 'crow' and by extension 'black/dark': 乌云 (wūyún) dark clouds; 乌黑 (wūhēi) jet-black.
- Also in 乌龟 (wūguī) tortoise and place names like 乌克兰 (Wūkèlán) Ukraine. The 'dark' sense drives most compounds.