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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
hú | hu2
English translation
bottle-gourd

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

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plant

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

艹胡

Semantic compound

cǎo

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. cǎo represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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村民 cūn mín men yòng 葫芦 hú lu Shèng Shuǐ .

The villagers use gourds for holding water.

jiāng 西葫芦 xī hú lu 干净 gānjìng xié zhāo qiē 成片 chéng piàn

Rinse and slice the cour-gettes crosswise.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
葫芦 hú lu hoist葫蘆
西葫芦 xī hú lu zucchini西葫蘆
葫芦岛 Hú lú dǎo Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 Liáo níng shěng in northeast China葫蘆島
糖葫芦 táng hú lu tanghulu糖葫蘆
冰糖葫芦 bīng táng hú lu tanghulu冰糖葫蘆
照葫芦画瓢 zhào hú lu huà piáo fig. to copy slavishly照葫蘆畫瓢
葫芦岛市 Hú lú dǎo shì Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 Liáo níng shěng in northeast China葫蘆島市
bottle gourd
依样画葫芦 yī yàng huà hú lu lit. to draw a gourd from the model (idiom)依樣畫葫蘆
闷葫芦 mèn hú lu fig. enigma悶葫蘆
按下葫芦浮起瓢 àn xià hú lú fú qǐ piáo solve one problem only to find another cropping up按下葫蘆浮起瓢

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