洼
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depression; low-lying area; low-lying; sunken
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 水 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 洼
- Common rank
- #3,244
- Unicode
- U+6D3C
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Formation & memory
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Words with 洼
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大洼区 | Dawa, a district of Panjin City 盤錦市|盘锦市[Pan2 jin3 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 大洼 | see 大窪區|大洼区[Da4 wa1 Qu1] | |
| 山洼 | mountain hollow; mountain depression | |
| 水洼 | puddle | |
| 洼地 | low-lying ground; depression | |
| 低洼 | low-lying | |
| 坑洼 | hole; hollow; depression; low-lying | |
| 坑坑洼洼 | full of pits and hollows; bumpy |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 圭 — 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 诖 | error, mistake; to deceive, to mislead |