胶
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to glue; glue; gum; rubber
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 肉 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 膠
- Common rank
- #711
- Unicode
- U+80F6
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Formation & memory
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How 胶 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Tendons that connect 交 muscles ⺼; 交 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
gum · Heisig RSH #2315
flesh + 交 mingle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 胶
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 胶州市 | Jiaozhou, a county-level city in Qingdao City 青島市|青岛市[Qing1 dao3 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 口红胶 | (Tw) glue stick | |
| 卡拉胶 | carageenan (chemistry) | |
| 南胶河 | Nanjiao River (Shandong province, flows into Qingdao harbor) | |
| 阿拉伯胶 | gum arabic; acacia gum | |
| 神经胶质 | glial cell; neuroglia | |
| 香口胶 | chewing gum | |
| 黄原胶 | xanthan; xanthanate gum (polysaccharide food additive used as a thickener) | |
| 胶合板 | plywood | |
| 双面胶 | double-sided tape | |
| 胶子 | gluon (particle physics) | |
| 胶原蛋白 | collagen | |
| 胶水 | glue | |
| 花胶 | dried swim bladder; fish maw | |
| 气胶 | aerosol | |
| 胶体 | colloid | |
| 发胶 | hair gel | |
| 强力胶 | superglue | |
| 开胶 | to come unglued; to come apart | |
| 胶合 | to join with glue |