葫
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used in 葫蘆|葫芦[hu2 lu5]
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 艸 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 葫
- Common rank
- #2,199
- Unicode
- U+846B
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 葫
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 葫芦里卖的是什么药 | what has (he) got up (his) sleeve?; what's going on? | |
| 手拉葫芦 | hand chain pulley block | |
| 气动葫芦 | pneumatic hoist pulley | |
| 电动葫芦 | electric chain pulley block | |
| 葫芦岛市 | Huludao, prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3] | |
| 手板葫芦 | lever pulley block | |
| 起重葫芦 | hoist pulley | |
| 宝葫芦的秘密 | Secret of the Magic Gourd (1958), prize-winning children's fairy tale by Zhang Tianyi 張天翼|… | |
| 冰糖葫芦 | sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer; tanghulu | |
| 依样画葫芦 | lit. to draw a gourd from the model (idiom); fig. to copy sth mechanically without attempt… | |
| 水葫芦 | water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes) | |
| 马葫芦 | (dialect) (loanword) manhole | |
| 西葫芦 | zucchini; courgette; baby marrow | |
| 葫芦巴 | fenugreek | |
| 按下葫芦浮起瓢 | solve one problem only to find another cropping up | |
| 葫芦岛 | see 葫蘆島市|葫芦岛市[Hu2 lu2 dao3 Shi4] | |
| 提葫芦 | variant of 提壺蘆|提壶芦[ti2 hu2 lu2] | |
| 宝葫芦 | magic gourd, granting your every wish | |
| 葫芦丝 | hulusi, aka cucurbit flute (a kind of free reed wind instrument) | |
| 糖葫芦 | sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer; tanghulu |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 胡 — compare how they read.