粉
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powder; cosmetic face powder; food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour; to turn to powder; (dialect) to whitewash; white; pink; (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉絲|粉丝[fen3 si1]); to be a fan of
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 米 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 粉
- Common rank
- #513
- Unicode
- U+7C89
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Formation & memory
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Words with 粉
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生粉水 | starch solution (cooking) | |
| 自发粉 | self-rising flour | |
| 通心粉 | macaroni | |
| 小粉红 | young Chinese cyber-nationalists | |
| 白粉病 | powdery mildew | |
| 粉红色 | pink | |
| 花粉热 | hay fever | |
| 可可粉 | cocoa powder | |
| 太白粉 | cornstarch; potato starch | |
| 粉头 | prostitute (old); crafty character (in opera) | |
| 生粉 | cornflour; starch powder (cooking) | |
| 小粉 | starch | |
| 白粉 | face powder; chalk powder; heroin | |
| 路转粉 | (Internet slang) to go from being indifferent to being a big fan | |
| 花粉 | pollen | |
| 粉转黑 | (Internet slang) to go from being an admirer to being a detractor | |
| 发粉 | baking powder | |
| 面粉 | flour | |
| 粉车 | (Mary Kay Cosmetics) pink car | |
| 石粉 | talcum powder |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 分 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 分 sound part | to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity | |
| 盆 | basin, bowl, pot, tub | |
| 芬 | aroma, fragrance, perfume | |
| 纷 | tangled, scattered; numerous, confused | |
| 扮 | costume, disguise; to dress up | |
| 盼 | to look, to gaze; to expect, to hope for | |
| 酚 | carbolic acid; phenol | |
| 汾 | a river in Shanxi province | |
| 忿 | anger, fury; exasperation | |
| 吩 | to order, to command; to instruct | |
| 氛 | air; atmosphere | |
| 玢 | (archaic) a kind of jade, porphyrite | |
| 棻 | sandalwood | |
| 棼 | rafters; disordered, confused | |
| 邠 | a county in Shaanxi province | |
| 鼢 | a variety of mole | |
| 坌 | dust; earth; river bank; to dig; to unite |