隅 yú

1. yú noun a nook; a corner
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 角 (CC-CEDICT '隅'; Guoyu '隅' n 2; Kroll 2015 '隅' 1, p. 569; Unihan '隅'; XHZD '隅' 1, p. 916)
2. yú noun edge
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '隅' n 5; Kroll 2015 '隅' 2, p. 569; XHZD '隅' 2, p. 916)
3. yú noun a cove
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 海隅 (Guoyu '隅' n 1; Kroll 2015 '隅' 1a, p. 569)
4. yú adjective very careful
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '隅' 2, p. 569; XHZD '隅' 2, p. 916)
5. yú noun a remote area; border region
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '隅' n 4)
6. yú noun side
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 边 or 旁 (Guoyu '隅' n 3)

Contained in

• 局促一隅 to be cramped in a corner
• 失之东隅，收之桑榆(失之東隅，收之桑榆) to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset; to compensate later for one's earlier loss
• 海隅 coastal area
• 举隅法(舉隅法) synecdoche
• 止于坐隅 stopped on the corner of the mat
• 向隅 to face the corner ; to miss out on
• 城隅 city wall corner ; a remote corner of the city

Also contained in

察隅县 、 察隅

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷20　志第15 天文中 Volume 20 Treatises 15: Astronomy 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 12
• 卷二百二十二下 列傳第一百四十七下 南蠻下 Volume 222c Biographies 147c: Southern Man 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 9
• 卷一百二十六 志第七十九 樂一 Volume 126 Treatises 79: Music 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 7
• 卷七十六　志第二十七上: 祭祀五 Volume 76 Treatises 29: Offerings 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 7
• 卷三十三 Scroll 33 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 卷四十八　志第一:　　天文一 Volume 48 Treatises 1: Astronomy 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 6
• 卷一百二十一 志第七十四 禮二十四 Volume 121 Treatises 74: Rites 24 History of Song 宋史 — count: 6
• 卷四十九 王充王符仲長統列傳 Volume 49: Biographies of Wang Chong, Wang Fu, Zhongchang Tong Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 6
• 卷二十九 志第九: 音樂二 Volume 29 Treatises 9: Music 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 6

Collocations

• 一隅 (一隅) 舉一隅不以三隅反 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 7. 《述而》 Shu Er — count: 42
• 四隅 (四隅) 蟻結于四隅 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 18
• 方隅 (方隅) 方隅內侵 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十九 魏書十九 任城陳蕭王傳 Volume 19: Book of Wei 19 - Biographies of the princes of Rencheng, Chen, and Xiao — count: 16
• 廉隅 (廉隅) 近文章砥厲廉隅 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《儒行》 The Conduct of the Scholar — count: 10
• 西北隅 (西北隅) 陷西北隅以入 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 9
• 三隅 (三隅) 舉一隅不以三隅反 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 7. 《述而》 Shu Er — count: 8
• 隅谓 (隅謂) 西南隅謂之奧 — Xunzi 荀子, 非十二子篇第六 Chapter 6: Against the Twelve Masters — count: 6
• 东南隅 (東南隅) 祝立于殯東南隅 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 6
• 二隅 (二隅) 二隅方跱 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十三 隗囂公孫述列傳 Volume 13: Biographies of Wei Xiao; Gongsun Shu — count: 4
• 之一隅 (之一隅) 皆道之一隅也 — Xunzi 荀子, 解蔽篇第二十一 Chapter 21: Dispelling Obsession — count: 4