蚂
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used in 螞蟥|蚂蟥[ma3 huang2]; used in 螞蟻|蚂蚁[ma3 yi3]
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 虫 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 螞
- Common rank
- #2,637
- Unicode
- U+8682
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Formation & memory
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Words with 蚂
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 热锅上的蚂蚁 | (like) a cat on a hot tin roof; anxious; agitated | |
| 一条绳上的蚂蚱 | lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom); fig. people who are in it … | |
| 一根绳上的蚂蚱 | see 一條繩上的螞蚱|一条绳上的蚂蚱[yi1 tiao2 sheng2 shang4 de5 ma4 zha5] | |
| 蚂蚁上树 | "ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲|粉丝[fen3 si1] and gr… | |
| 蚂蚁金服 | Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate company of Alibaba 阿里巴巴[A1 li3 ba1 ba1] | |
| 蚂蚁包 | ant bite (swollen, itchy bump); anthill; ant mound; (metonym) ant nest | |
| 蚂蚱也是肉 | lit. even a locust provides some nourishment (idiom); fig. it's better than nothing | |
| 蚂蚁腰 | (coll.) tiny waist | |
| 蚂蜂 | variant of 馬蜂|马蜂[ma3 feng1] | |
| 蚂蚁窝 | ant nest | |
| 蚂蚁 | ant | |
| 蚂螂 | dragonfly | |
| 蚂蚱 | (dialect) locust; grasshopper | |
| 蚂蟥 | leech |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 马 — compare how they read.