胳
3 readings · tap one to hear it
armpit
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 肉 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 胳
- Common rank
- #2,756
- Unicode
- U+80F3
Sound it out + = · + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
upper limb · Heisig RSH #1630
flesh + 各 each
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 胳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 胳膊拧不过大腿 | (idiom) the weak cannot overcome the strong | |
| 胳臂箍儿 | armband | |
| 胳膊肘朝外拐 | lit. the elbow turns outward (idiom); fig. to side with outsiders rather than one's own pe… | |
| 胳臂肘儿 | elbow | |
| 胳膊肘往外拐 | see 胳膊肘朝外拐[ge1 bo5 zhou3 chao2 wai4 guai3] | |
| 胳肢窝 | armpit; also pr. [ge1 zhi5 wo1]; also written 夾肢窩|夹肢窝[ga1 zhi5 wo1] | |
| 胳膊肘子 | see 胳膊肘[ge1 bo5 zhou3] | |
| 胳臂 | arm; CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]; also pr. [ge1 bi4] | |
| 胳肢 | (dialect) to tickle | |
| 胳膊肘 | elbow | |
| 胳膊 | arm; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2],雙|双[shuang1] | |
| 捋胳膊 | to push up one's sleeves |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 各 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 各 sound part | individual; each, every; all | |
| 路 | road, path, street; journey | |
| 格 | form, pattern, standard | |
| 洛 | a river in the Shanxi province; a city | |
| 略 | approximate, rough; outline, summary; plan, plot | |
| 络 | web, net; to entangle | |
| 阁 | cabinet, chamber, pavilion | |
| 酪 | cream, cheese; koumiss | |
| 咯 | final particle | |
| 骆 | camel | |
| 烙 | to burn, to brand; hot iron | |
| 恪 | respectful, reverent | |
| 珞 | a kind of necklace | |
| 貉 | raccoon dog | |
| 骼 | bone, skeleton; corpse | |
| 饹 | buckwheat or sorghum noodles | |
| 铬 | chromium | |
| 袼 | gusset, cloth fitting-sleeve | |
| 硌 | hard, bulging |