芥
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mustard
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 艸 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 芥
- Common rank
- #2,559
- Unicode
- U+82A5
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Formation & memory
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Words with 芥
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 草芥人命 | see 草菅人命[cao3 jian1 ren2 ming4] | |
| 视如土芥 | to regard as useless; to view as no better than weeds | |
| 芥子气 | mustard gas | |
| 芥花油 | rapeseed oil; canola oil | |
| 水田芥 | watercress | |
| 青芥辣 | horseradish; wasabi; green mustard | |
| 芥兰 | variant of 芥藍|芥蓝[gai4 lan2] | |
| 芥菜 | leaf mustard (Brassica juncea); also pr. [gai4cai4] | |
| 芥蓝 | Chinese broccoli; Chinese kale; cabbage mustard; Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra; also p… | |
| 芥末 | mustard; wasabi | |
| 氮芥气 | nitrogen mustard | |
| 筷子芥 | Arabis, a genus of Brassica family including cress | |
| 芥菜籽 | mustard seed | |
| 芥蒂 | an obstruction; barrier; ill-feeling; grudge | |
| 拾芥 | to pick up cress; fig. sth easy to do; a piece of cake | |
| 荆芥 | schizonepeta, herb used in Chinese medicine | |
| 芥茉 | variant of 芥末[jie4 mo5] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 介 — compare how they read.