腔
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(bound form) cavity; (bound form) speech; talk; tune; accent (in one's speech); (old) classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 肉 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 腔
- Common rank
- #1,495
- Unicode
- U+8154
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
body cavity · Heisig RSH #2363
flesh + 空 empty
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 腔
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 南腔北调 | a regional accent | |
| 野调无腔 | coarse in speech and manner | |
| 四县腔 | Sixian dialect of Hakka Chinese | |
| 有腔调 | classy; stylish; upmarket | |
| 洋腔洋调 | to speak with a foreign accent or using words from a foreign language (usually derogatory)… | |
| 字正腔圆 | to enunciate beautifully (in speaking or singing) (idiom) | |
| 腔肠动物 | Coelenterata (such as jellyfish) | |
| 打官腔 | to talk officiously; to assume the air of a functionary; to talk in official jargon | |
| 关节腔 | articular cavity; joint cavity | |
| 装腔作势 | posturing; pretentious; affected | |
| 油腔滑调 | flippant and insincere (piece of writing or speech); glib-tongued; oily | |
| 腔子 | thoracic cavity; intonation; accent | |
| 一腔 | full of (zeal, anger etc) | |
| 球腔菌 | Mycosphaerella (genus of sac fungus, a plant pathogen) | |
| 花腔 | florid ornamentation in opera; coloratura | |
| 体腔 | body cavity; coelom (biology) | |
| 高腔 | gaoqiang, high-pitched opera singing style | |
| 口腔 | oral cavity | |
| 口腔炎 | stomatitis; ulceration of oral cavity; inflammation of the mucous lining of the mouth | |
| 开腔 | to speak out; to start speaking |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 空 — compare how they read.