芹
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Chinese celery
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 艸 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 芹
- Common rank
- #2,969
- Unicode
- U+82B9
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
celery · Heisig RSH #2185
flower + tomahawk
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 芹
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大星芹 | great masterwort (Astrantia major) | |
| 羊角芹 | ground-elder (Aegopodium podagraria) | |
| 海刺芹 | sea holly (Eryngium maritimum) | |
| 荷兰芹 | parsley | |
| 西芹 | celery; parsley | |
| 芹菜 | celery (Apium graveolens) | |
| 皱叶欧芹 | curled-leaf parsley (Petroselinum crispum) | |
| 孜然芹 | cumin | |
| 曹雪芹 | Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hong2 lou… | |
| 欧芹 | parsley (Petroselinum sativum) | |
| 刺芹菇 | king trumpet mushroom (Pleurotus eryngii) | |
| 茴芹 | anise (Pimpinella anisum); aniseed; chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 斤 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斤 sound part | a catty (about 500 grams); an axe; keen, shrewd | |
| 近 | to approach; near, close; intimate | |
| 欣 | delighted, happy, joyous | |
| 祈 | to pray, to entreat, to beseech | |
| 沂 | a river in southeast Shandong | |
| 忻 | pleasant, joyful, delightful | |
| 蕲 | to pray, to implore; herb; Artemesia | |
| 圻 | border, boundary | |
| 靳 | a strap on a horse's breast | |
| 昕 | day, dawn, early morning | |
| 颀 | tall and slim; slender |