墟

xū

high mound; hilly countryside; wasteland

How to write 墟, stroke by stroke

ruins; (literary) village; variant of 圩; country fair

Pictophonetic: semantic 土 (earth), phonetic 虚

Made of 土 + 虚

废墟fèi xūruins
墟里xū lǐvillage
华屋丘墟huá wū qiū xūmagnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins
殷墟yīn xūYinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安陽|安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site

暴风雨过后，他们的房子成了废墟。
bào fēng yǔ guò hòu ， tā men de fáng zi chéng le fèi xū 。
After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.
这座城市成为了一片废墟。
zhè zuò chéng shì chéng wéi le yí piàn fèi xū 。
The city fell into ruins.
城堡如今已经成了废墟。
chéng bǎo rú jīn yǐ jīng chéng le fèi xū 。
The castle is now in ruins.
这些废墟年代久远。
zhè xiē fèi xū nián dài jiǔ yuǎn 。
These ruins are ancient.
一连串的爆炸使实验室成为废墟。
yì lián chuàn de bào zhà shǐ shí yàn shì chéng wéi fèi xū 。
A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins.