粥
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congee; gruel; porridge; CL:碗[wan3]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 米 +6
- Structure
- Left–middle–right 左中右
- Traditional
- 粥
- Common rank
- #2,307
- Unicode
- U+7CA5
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Words with 粥
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 血管粥样硬化 | atherosclerosis; hardening of the arteries | |
| 动脉粥样硬化 | atherosclerosis | |
| 一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 | lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom); fig. one bad apple c… | |
| 粥样硬化 | atherosclerosis; hardening of the arteries | |
| 八宝粥 | rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc | |
| 一锅粥 | (lit.) a pot of porridge; (fig.) a complete mess | |
| 一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 | see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yi1 li4 lao3 shu3 shi3 huai4 le5 yi1 guo1 zhou1] | |
| 施粥舍饭 | to provide alms and rice (idiom) | |
| 白粥 | plain rice congee | |
| 燕麦粥 | oatmeal; porridge | |
| 米粥 | congee | |
| 僧多粥少 | lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom); fig. not enough to go around; demand exceeds s… | |
| 粥少僧多 | see 僧多粥少[seng1 duo1 zhou1 shao3] | |
| 腊八粥 | Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the C… | |
| 煲电话粥 | to talk endlessly on the phone | |
| 粥厂 | food relief center; soup kitchen | |
| 稀粥 | water gruel; thin porridge | |
| 粥棚 | food relief center; soup kitchen | |
| 豌豆粥 | pea gruel | |
| 荤粥 | Xunyu, an ethnic group of northern China in ancient times |