蚊
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mosquito
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 虫 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 蚊
- Common rank
- #2,280
- Unicode
- U+868A
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 蚊
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大炮打蚊子 | cannon fire to hit a mosquito; to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut | |
| 白线斑蚊 | Aedes albopictus (species of mosquito) | |
| 花蚊子 | (coll.) Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) | |
| 蚊子包 | mosquito bite | |
| 电蚊香 | electric mosquito repellent | |
| 蚊子再小也是肉 | lit. even a mosquito, though tiny, provides some nourishment (idiom); fig. it's better tha… | |
| 黑斑蚊 | Aedes, a genus of mosquito | |
| 飞蚊症 | eye floaters (moving spots in the eye's vitreous humor) | |
| 白纹伊蚊 | Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) | |
| 蚊子馆 | (jocular) public building that has been lying idle (and is thus ideal for housing mosquito… | |
| 电蚊拍 | electric mosquito swatter | |
| 蚊子 | mosquito | |
| 防蚊液 | mosquito repellent | |
| 蚊香 | mosquito-repellent incense or coil | |
| 蚊虫 | mosquito | |
| 伊蚊 | Aedes, a genus of mosquito | |
| 避蚊胺 | DEET, an insect repellent | |
| 按蚊 | anopheles; malarial mosquito | |
| 蚊帐 | mosquito net; CL:頂|顶[ding3] | |
| 驱蚊 | to repel mosquitoes |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 文 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文 sound part | culture, literature, writing | |
| 纹 | line, stripe; pattern, decoration; wrinkle | |
| 刘 | to kill, to destroy; surname | |
| 坟 | grave, mound, bulge; bulging | |
| 汶 | a river in Shandong province | |
| 忞 | to psych up; to steel one's nerves | |
| 紊 | tangled; confused, disordered | |
| 玟 | gem, jade-like stone | |
| 炆 | to simmer, to cook over a slow fire | |
| 雯 | cloud patterns; storm clouds |