涓
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brook; to select
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 水 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 涓
- Common rank
- #3,146
- Unicode
- U+6D93
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Formation & memory
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How 涓 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 肙 sound ()
Components 氵 肙
Words with 涓
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 刘涓子鬼遗方 | Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼 | |
| 涓埃之力 | negligible force (idiom); tiny force | |
| 涓滴归公 | every drop returns to the public good (idiom); not one penny is misused | |
| 刘涓子 | Liu Juanzi, legendary alchemist and creator of magic potions | |
| 涓吉 | to choose an auspicious day | |
| 涓埃 | tiny stream of dust; tiny things; negligible | |
| 涓滴 | tiny stream; trickle; drops; tiny trickle of funds | |
| 庞涓 | Pang Juan (-342 BC), military leader and political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱… | |
| 涓涓 | a trickle; tiny stream; sluggish; to flow sluggishly |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 肙 — compare how they read.