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melon, pumpkin 瓜
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Explanation |
Picture of a melon hanging from a frame.
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Used in these characters:
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瓜
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| melon, gourd, squash
guā
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瓜
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Image of a melon hanging from a frame.
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孤
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| lone, lonely, orphan
gū
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子
瓜
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Left: child 子, right: melon 瓜 (image of a melon hanging from a frame)
The child and the single hanging melon are lonely.
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瓣
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| petal, segment, clove (of garlic), piece, section, fragment
bàn
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辛
瓜
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Outside: bitter, spicy 辛 (to stand 立, ten 十), inside: melon 瓜 (image of a melon in a rope loop hanging from a frame.)
Laterally to the melon stand 立 (blossoms) with each ten 十 petals as their segments.
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弧
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JLPT no HSK |
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| arc
hú
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弓
瓜
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Left: bow 弓, right: melon 瓜 (Image of a melon hanging from a frame.)
The bow and melon have the form of an arc.
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狐
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JLPT no HSK |
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| fox
hú
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犭
瓜
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Left: wild animal 犭 (dog on the hind legs), right: melon, pumpkin 瓜 (image of a melon in a rope loop hanging from a frame)
This wild animal has (the color) of a pumpkin: the fox.
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呱
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JLPT no HSK |
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| crying sound of child
gū
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口
瓜
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Left: mouth 口, right: melon 瓜 (Image of a melon hanging from a frame.)
The mouth (open) like a melon, when: crying.
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瓢
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JLPT no HSK |
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| dipper, ladle
piáo
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票
瓜
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Left: ticket, bank note 票 (In the west 覀/西 you show 示 your ticket), right: melon 瓜 (Image of a melon hanging from a frame.)
(In the canteen they made the ladle out of a halved melon?) For your ticket you get as much as a melon: out of the ladle.
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Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning. |  |
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