菌
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(bound form) bacterium; (bound form) fungus; Taiwan pr. [jun4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 艸 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 菌
- Common rank
- #593
- Unicode
- U+83CC
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 菌 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 meaning “plant” + 囷 sound ()
Components 艹 囷
How to remember it
fungus · Heisig RSH #2014
flower + pent in + wild rice
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 菌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无菌性 | aseptic | |
| 李斯特菌 | Listeria monocytogene | |
| 菌子 | (dialect) mushroom | |
| 沙门菌 | salmonella | |
| 病原菌 | a pathogen; a bacterial pathogen | |
| 无菌 | sterile; aseptic | |
| 放线菌 | actinomycete (bacteria of order Actinomycetales) | |
| 带菌者 | asymptomatic carrier | |
| 军团菌病 | legionnaires' disease | |
| 细菌武器 | biological weapon (using germs) | |
| 细菌病毒 | bacteriophage; virus that infects bacteria | |
| 病菌 | harmful bacteria; pathogenic bacteria; germs | |
| 双球菌 | diplococcus | |
| 李斯特氏菌 | listeria bacillus | |
| 结核菌素 | tubercule bacillus | |
| 球菌 | coccus (spherical bacteria pathogen) | |
| 沙门氏菌 | Salmonella | |
| 细菌战 | biological warfare; germ warfare | |
| 衣原菌 | Chlamydia | |
| 军团菌 | legionella (bacterium causing legionnaires' disease) |