耦
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a pair; a mate; a couple; to couple; plowshare
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 耒 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 耦
- Common rank
- #2,869
- Unicode
- U+8026
Formation & memory
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How 耦 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
耒 meaning “plow” + 禺 sound ()
Components 耒 禺
Words with 耦
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 光耦合器 | optocoupler (electronics) | |
| 电荷耦合器件 | charge-coupled device (CCD) (electronics) | |
| 齐大非耦 | variant of 齊大非偶|齐大非偶[qi2 da4 fei1 ou3] | |
| 电荷耦合 | electric charge coupling | |
| 耦合 | coupling (physics); copula (statistics); to be coupled (with sth) | |
| 耦语 | to have a tete-à-tete; to whisper to each other | |
| 光耦 | abbr. for 光耦合器[guang1 ou3 he2 qi4] | |
| 解耦 | decoupling (electronics) | |
| 去耦 | to decouple | |
| 耦居 | to live together (as husband and wife) | |
| 耦园 | Couple's Retreat Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu, one of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou, a UNES… | |
| 怨耦 | variant of 怨偶[yuan4 ou3] | |
| 匹耦 | variant of 匹偶[pi3 ou3] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 禺 — compare how they read.