蒜
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garlic; CL:頭|头[tou2],瓣[ban4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 艸 +10
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蒜
- Common rank
- #2,209
- Unicode
- U+849C
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 蒜 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 meaning “herb” + 祘 sound ()
Components 艹 祘
How to remember it
garlic · Heisig RSH #2166
altar + flower
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 蒜
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鸡毛蒜皮 | lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom); fig. trivial (matter) | |
| 独子蒜 | solo garlic; single-clove garlic | |
| 独头蒜 | solo garlic; single-clove garlic | |
| 压蒜器 | garlic press | |
| 装洋蒜 | to feign ignorance | |
| 大蒜 | garlic; CL:瓣[ban4],頭|头[tou2] | |
| 蒜头 | garlic bulb | |
| 石蒜 | red spider lily (Lycoris radiata) | |
| 蒜米 | minced garlic; peeled garlic clove | |
| 青蒜 | garlic shoots and leaves | |
| 香蒜酱 | garlic sauce; pesto | |
| 装蒜 | to act stupid; to play dumb; to pretend to not know | |
| 蒜味 | garlic odor | |
| 多瓣蒜 | Chinese elephant garlic | |
| 蒜泥 | thoroughly mashed or minced garlic; garlic paste | |
| 磕头如捣蒜 | (idiom) to kowtow repeatedly and rapidly (esp. when pleading for mercy) | |
| 蒜苗 | garlic shoot; garlic sprouts | |
| 蒜瓣 | garlic clove | |
| 蒜蓉 | thoroughly mashed or minced garlic; garlic paste | |
| 拌蒜 | to stagger (walk unsteadily) |