菱
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(bound form) water caltrop (Trapa species)
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 艸 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 菱
- Common rank
- #2,843
- Unicode
- U+83F1
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Formation & memory
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How 菱 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 meaning “grass” + 夌 sound ()
Components 艹 夌
How to remember it
water caltrop · Heisig RSH #2349
flower + Minuteclods
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 菱
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 菱形六面体 | (math.) rhombohedron | |
| 铁菱角 | see 鐵菱|铁菱[tie3 ling2] | |
| 菱花镜 | antique bronze mirror with flower petal edging, most commonly from the Tang dynasty | |
| 麦凯斯菱 | rhombus of Michaelis (anatomy) | |
| 菱铁矿 | siderite | |
| 三菱 | Mitsubishi (Japanese conglomerate) | |
| 菱角 | water caltrop (Trapa species), aquatic plant with edible seeds | |
| 菱形 | rhombus | |
| 铁菱 | (military) caltrop (spiky metal device laid on the ground to create a hazard for enemy hor… | |
| 菱镜 | see 菱花鏡|菱花镜[ling2 hua1 jing4] | |
| 菱镁矿 | magnesite; magnesium ore | |
| 大菱鲆 | turbot |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夌 — compare how they read.