葛
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kudzu (Pueraria lobata); hemp cloth
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 艸 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 葛
- Common rank
- #1,902
- Unicode
- U+845B
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 葛 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 meaning “plant” + 曷 sound ()
Components 艹 曷
How to remember it
kudzu · Heisig RSH #2108
flower + siesta
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 葛
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斯多葛主义 | Stoicism | |
| 葛兰素史克 | GlaxoSmithKline, British pharmaceutical company | |
| 长葛市 | Changge, a county-level city in Xuchang City 許昌市|许昌市[Xu3 chang1 Shi4], Henan | |
| 三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮 | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom | |
| 三个臭皮匠，赛过一个诸葛亮 | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom; wisdom of… | |
| 三个臭皮匠，胜过一个诸葛亮 | variant of 三個臭皮匠，賽過一個諸葛亮|三个臭皮匠，赛过一个诸葛亮[san1 ge4 chou4 pi2 jiang5 , sai4 guo4 yi1 ge4 Zhu1 … | |
| 三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮 | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom; wisdom of… | |
| 葛瑞格尔 | Gregoire (name) | |
| 三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮 | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom; wisdom of… | |
| 事后诸葛亮 | person who is wise after the event | |
| 葛莱美奖 | (Tw) Grammy Award (US music industry award) | |
| 长葛 | see 長葛市|长葛市[Chang2 ge3 Shi4] | |
| 葛布 | hemp cloth | |
| 葛根 | tuber of the kudzu vine (Pueraria lobata), used in Chinese medicine | |
| 葛粉 | starch of pueraria root; arrowroot flour | |
| 葛法翁 | Capernaum (biblical town on the Sea of Galilee) | |
| 葛摩 | Comoros (Tw) | |
| 瓜葛 | connection; association; involvement | |
| 诸葛亮 | Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] duri… | |
| 葛优 | Ge You (1957-), Chinese actor |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 曷 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 曷 sound part | what, why, where, which, how | |
| 褐 | coarse wool; dull, brown | |
| 喝 | to drink; to shout, to call out | |
| 揭 | to lift off a cover; to reveal, to divulge; surname | |
| 歇 | to stop, to rest, to lodge | |
| 竭 | to exhaust; to put forth great effort | |
| 渴 | thirsty, parched; to yearn, to pine for | |
| 羯 | wether, castrated ram; deer skin | |
| 谒 | to visit, to pay respects | |
| 蝎 | scorpion | |
| 遏 | to curb, to check, to stop, to suppress | |
| 猲 | frightened, terrified; snub-nosed dog | |
| 碣 | stone tablet |