芋
Tap the pinyin to hear it
taro; Colocasia antiquorum; Colocasia esculenta
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 艸 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 芋
- Common rank
- #2,619
- Unicode
- U+828B
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 芋
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 芋头色 | lilac (color) | |
| 洋芋片 | (Tw) potato chip | |
| 芋螺毒素 | conotoxin | |
| 烫手山芋 | hot potato; problem; trouble; headache | |
| 山芋 | sweet potato | |
| 芋头 | taro | |
| 海芋 | giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos); common calla | |
| 洋芋 | (dialect) potato | |
| 乌芋 | see 荸薺|荸荠[bi2 qi2] | |
| 芋圆 | taro ball (Taiwanese dessert) | |
| 竹芋 | Indian arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea) | |
| 芋泥 | yam paste (a snack in Chaozhou cuisine) | |
| 姑婆芋 | night-scented lily (Alocasia odora) | |
| 魔芋 | see 蒟蒻[ju3 ruo4] | |
| 菊芋 | Jerusalem artichoke | |
| 茵芋 | Skimmia japonica | |
| 芋艿 | taro |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 于 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 于 sound part | at, in, on; to, from; alas! | |
| 宇 | building, house, room, structure; space, the universe | |
| 迂 | abstruse, pedantic, unrealistic | |
| 盂 | basin; cup | |
| 吁 | alas; to sigh | |
| 竽 | free reed mouth organ | |
| 圩 | dike, embankment | |
| 盱 | eyes wide open; to gaze in astonishment | |
| 纡 | to twist, to turn, to bend; to distort | |
| 玗 | semi-precious stone | |
| 邘 | a state in Henan province |