咕
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(onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 咕
- Common rank
- #2,408
- Unicode
- U+5495
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 咕
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乱咕攘 | to disturb (dialect) | |
| 搭咕 | to connect; to discuss | |
| 黑咕隆咚 | pitch-black; pitch-dark | |
| 咕噜肉 | sweet and sour meat (pork) | |
| 咕咕叫 | sound made by an empty stomach | |
| 叽里咕噜 | see 嘰哩咕嚕|叽哩咕噜[ji1 li5 gu1 lu1] | |
| 挤咕 | to wink at | |
| 戳咕 | to stir up behind sb's back; to incite secretly | |
| 咕唧 | to whisper; to mutter | |
| 唧咕 | (onom.) whisper | |
| 犯嘀咕 | to hesitate; to have second thoughts; to be concerned; to brood (over sth); to complain | |
| 掖咕 | to toss aside; to misplace | |
| 叽叽咕咕 | (onom.) to mutter; to mumble; to whisper | |
| 咕噜 | (onom.) to rumble (of a stomach); to coo (of a dove); rumbling; noisy drinking sound | |
| 叽哩咕噜 | (onom.) to jabber; to rumble | |
| 咕咾肉 | sweet and sour meat (pork) | |
| 咕咚 | splash; (onom.) for heavy things falling down | |
| 呛咕 | to discuss (dialect) | |
| 嘀咕 | to mutter; to feel apprehensive | |
| 咕哝 | to murmur; to mumble; to grumble; to mutter |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 古 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound part | old, classic, ancient | |
| 苦 | bitter; hardship, suffering | |
| 胡 | recklessly, foolishly; wildly | |
| 居 | to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit | |
| 故 | reason, cause; happening, instance | |
| 固 | to solidify; strength | |
| 估 | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume | |
| 鸪 | species of Taiwan pigeon | |
| 沽 | to buy and sell; of inferior quality | |
| 蛄 | mole cricket | |
| 辜 | crime, offense, sin | |
| 祜 | blessings, happiness, prosperity | |
| 怙 | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) | |
| 钴 | cobalt; clothes-iron | |
| 罟 | net, snare; to implicate | |
| 诂 | explanation; to comment, to explain | |
| 骷 | skeleton | |
| 嘏 | felicity, prosperity; large and strong | |
| 轱 | wheel; to revolve, to turn |