礁
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reef; shoal rock
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 石 +12
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 礁
- Common rank
- #2,808
- Unicode
- U+7901
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 礁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 比基尼环礁 | Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, former US nuclear test site in the Pacific | |
| 斯卡伯勒礁 | Scarborough Shoal (Philippines' name for Huangyan Island) | |
| 礁湖星云 | Lagoon Nebula, M8 | |
| 大堡礁 | Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia | |
| 礁石 | reef | |
| 礁岛 | reef island | |
| 环礁 | atoll | |
| 礁湖 | lagoon | |
| 暗礁 | submerged reef (rock) | |
| 触礁 | (of a ship) to strike a reef; (fig.) to hit a snag | |
| 堡礁 | barrier reef | |
| 浅礁 | shallow reef; shoal | |
| 牛轭礁 | Niu'e Reef, disputed territory in the South China Sea, claimed by China, Vietnam and the P… | |
| 珊瑚礁 | coral reef |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 焦 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 焦 sound part | burned, scorched; anxious, vexed | |
| 鹪 | wren | |
| 蕉 | banana, plantain | |
| 瞧 | to glance at, to look at, to see | |
| 谯 | tower; to ridicule, to blame; surname | |
| 憔 | worn-out, haggard, emaciated | |
| 噍 | to chew, to eat, to munch | |
| 僬 | clever, alert; pigmy | |
| 膲 | the triple foci, the three visceral cavities | |
| 醮 | to anoint, to perform a rite; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony | |
| 蟭 | mite, larva; mantis egg | |
| 劁 | to castrate, to neuter |