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处于

chǔ yú 3–2

to be in (some state, position, or condition)

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
处 · 于
Syllables
2
chǔ yú
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,772

Part of speech: v

Character by character

  • 处chù5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 處place, locale; department
  • 于yú3 strokesHSK 2 traditional 於in, on, at; go to; surname

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 处于. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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