silt / river sludge / to silt up / choked with silt / variant of 瘀[yu1]

淤 character breakdown

in / at / to / from / by / than / out of

= + : Mnemonic symbol: prepositions are what glue the sentence together. Honey is as sticky as glue, so I'll represent 于 by a honey jar.

Yu the Great was assigned to repair the electrics of the space station's entrance, but instead she was snacking some honey from a honey jar. Now her capacitor got stuck in the honey and she has to use a crowbar to lever it out.
surname Yu / Taiwan pr. [Yu2]
(literary) Oh! / Ah!
"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.
(of time or place) in; at; on / (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for / (indicating a source) from; out of / (used in comparison) than / (used in the passive voice) by

Characters with 淤 as component

淤 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 淤

silt / sludge / ooze
variant of 瘀血[yu1 xue4]
to silt up / silt / sediment / ooze / slurry
silted up / obstructed by silt / variant of 瘀滯|瘀滞[yu1 zhi4]
to warp (fertilize land by flooding)
bruise / patch of bruising
bruise / contusion
lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible
choked with silt / silted up

Sentences with 淤

淤 currently does not appear in any sentence.