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瓣

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petal; segment; clove (of garlic); piece; section; fragment; valve; lamella; classifier for pieces, segments etc

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
19
Radical
瓜 +14
Structure
Left–middle–right 左中右
Traditional
瓣
Common rank
#2,036
Unicode
U+74E3

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Formation & memory

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How 瓣 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

melon

Components 辛 ×2 瓜

How to remember it

petal · Heisig RSH #2829

chili pepper + 瓜 melon

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 瓣

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
龙骨瓣 lóng gǔ bàn (botany) carina; keel (of a papilionaceous flower)
半月瓣 bàn yuè bàn semilunar valve (anatomy)
阴道瓣 yīn dào bàn hymen
豆瓣网 Dòu bàn Wǎng Douban, PRC social networking website
豆瓣菜 dòu bàn cài watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
三尖瓣 sān jiān bàn (anatomy) tricuspid valve
心瓣 xīn bàn heart valve
二尖瓣 èr jiān bàn mitral valve (physiology)
花瓣 huā bàn petal; CL:片[pian4]
重瓣 chóng bàn (botany) double-flowered
单瓣 dān bàn single petal; single valve
活瓣 huó bàn valve
豆瓣 Dòu bàn Douban, a Chinese social networking website
豆瓣 dòu bàn cotyledon of a bean or pea (i.e. either of the halves of a bean or pea); thick bean sauce …
豆瓣酱 dòu bàn jiàng sticky chili bean sauce; doubanjiang
旗瓣 qí bàn (botany) vexillum; banner petal; standard petal (of a papilionaceous flower)
野鼬瓣花 yě yòu bàn huā wild hemp
多瓣蒜 duō bàn suàn Chinese elephant garlic
瓣膜 bàn mó valve (biological)
二尖瓣狭窄 èr jiān bàn xiá zhǎi mitral stenosis (physiology)