粪
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manure; dung
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 米 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 糞
- Common rank
- #2,021
- Unicode
- U+7CAA
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 粪
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 视如粪土 | to look upon as dirt; considered worthless | |
| 鲜花插在牛粪上 | lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure; fig. a terrible shame (as when a love… | |
| 粪化石 | coprolite | |
| 马粪纸 | strawboard | |
| 粪金龟子 | dung beetle | |
| 满嘴喷粪 | to talk bullshit | |
| 化粪池 | septic tank | |
| 大粪 | human excrement; night soil (human manure traditionally used as agricultural fertilizer) | |
| 粪水 | wastewater that contains feces | |
| 粪道 | coprodeum (in birds) | |
| 粪石 | coprolite | |
| 粪草 | compost made with animal manure and straw | |
| 粪土 | dirty soil; dung and dirt; (fig.) worthless thing | |
| 粪青 | "shit youth", sarcastic homonym for 憤青|愤青[fen4 qing1] | |
| 鸟粪 | guano; bird excrement | |
| 倒粪 | to turn over manure; fig. to offend others by endlessly repeating unpleasant remarks | |
| 粪金龟 | dung beetle | |
| 粪便 | excrement; feces; night soil | |
| 粪除 | (literary) to clean up | |
| 粪肥 | manure; dung |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 共 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 共 sound part | all, total; together; to share | |
| 拱 | to salute, to bow; arched; arch | |
| 恭 | polite, respectful, reverent | |
| 哄 | to coax; to beguile, to cheat, to deceive; tumult, uproar | |
| 烘 | to bake, to roast; to dry by the fire | |
| 珙 | precious stone; a county in Sichuan | |
| 蕻 | budding, flourishing | |
| 龚 | to give, to present; reverential | |
| 栱 | stake, post; pillar; peg | |
| 輂 | horse-drawn carriage | |
| 衖 | alley, lane |