葱
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scallion; green onion
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 艸 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 葱
- Common rank
- #2,200
- Unicode
- U+8471
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 葱 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 meaning “grass” + 怱 sound
Components 艹 怱
How to remember it
onion · Heisig RSH #2131
flower + 匆 hurriedly + 心 heart
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 葱
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 金葱粉 | glitter (sparkling material) | |
| 细香葱 | chive | |
| 金葱胶 | glitter glue | |
| 洋葱圈 | onion ring | |
| 大葱 | leek; Chinese onion | |
| 葱头 | onion | |
| 小葱 | green onion; spring onion | |
| 葱白 | the white part of a green onion or scallion | |
| 葱花 | chopped green onions | |
| 葱油饼 | scallion pancake | |
| 葱黄 | yellow green | |
| 青葱 | scallion; green onion; verdant; lush green | |
| 洋葱 | onion (Allium cepa); bulb onion | |
| 葱绿 | verdant | |
| 算哪根葱 | who do (you) think (you) are?; who does (he, she etc) think (he, she) is? | |
| 葱属 | genus Allium | |
| 葱抓饼 | flaky scallion pancake (made with dough, not batter) | |
| 倒栽葱 | to fall headlong; (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure | |
| 葱岭 | old name for the Pamirs 帕米爾高原|帕米尔高原[Pa4 mi3 er3 Gao1 yuan2] | |
| 虾夷葱 | chive |