圭
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jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies; sundial; (ancient unit of volume) a tiny amount; a smidgen; a speck
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 土 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 圭
- Common rank
- #3,258
- Unicode
- U+572D
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Formation & memory
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Words with 圭
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 法属圭亚那 | French Guiana | |
| 安圭拉 | Anguilla | |
| 巴拉圭 | Paraguay | |
| 乌拉圭 | Uruguay | |
| 圭亚那 | Guyana | |
| 利隆圭 | Lilongwe, capital of Malawi | |
| 奉为圭臬 | to take as a guiding principle (idiom) | |
| 崔圭夏 | Choe Gyuha (1919-2006), South Korean politician, president 1979-1980 | |
| 荜门圭窦 | wicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel; living in poverty |
Sound family
These characters use 圭 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圭 sound part | jade tablet | |
| 挂 | to suspend, to put up, to hang; suspense | |
| 鞋 | shoes, footwear in general | |
| 街 | street, road, thoroughfare | |
| 佳 | good, auspicious; beautiful; delightful | |
| 桂 | cassia, cinnamon | |
| 硅 | silicon | |
| 哇 | to vomit; an infant's cry | |
| 闺 | women's quarters; lady's apartment | |
| 蛙 | frog | |
| 奎 | a man's stride; a constellation | |
| 卦 | divination, fortune-telling | |
| 洼 | pit, hollow, depression; swamp | |
| 畦 | sections in a vegetable farm | |
| 眭 | a piercing gaze; the evil eye | |
| 筀 | bamboo (archaic) | |
| 絓 | to hinder, to obstruct | |
| 鲑 | salmon; Spheroides vermicularis | |
| 恚 | anger, rage |