蛙
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frog; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 虫 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 蛙
- Common rank
- #2,578
- Unicode
- U+86D9
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 蛙
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中国林蛙 | Chinese brown frog (Rana chensinensis) | |
| 井蛙之见 | the view of a frog in a well (idiom); fig. a narrow view | |
| 井底之蛙 | (lit.) a frog at the bottom of a well (idiom); (fig.) a person of limited outlook and expe… | |
| 温水煮青蛙 | (fig.) introducing change incrementally so that it arouses little resistance; gradual chan… | |
| 蛙人 | frogman | |
| 台蛙 | (derog.) Taiwanese; a person from Taiwan (implying naivete or ignorance regarding geopolit… | |
| 蛙式 | breaststroke (swimming) | |
| 箭毒蛙 | poison dart frog | |
| 青蛙 | frog (CL:隻|只[zhi1]); (old) (slang) ugly guy | |
| 牛蛙 | bullfrog | |
| 树蛙 | tree frog | |
| 雨蛙 | rain frog | |
| 黑顶蛙口鸱 | (bird species of China) Hodgson's frogmouth (Batrachostomus hodgsoni) | |
| 蛙鞋 | (diving, snorkeling) fins; flippers | |
| 馋嘴蛙 | sautéed bullfrog with chili sauce | |
| 蛙泳 | breaststroke (swimming) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 圭 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圭 sound part | jade tablet | |
| 挂 | to suspend, to put up, to hang; suspense | |
| 鞋 | shoes, footwear in general | |
| 街 | street, road, thoroughfare | |
| 佳 | good, auspicious; beautiful; delightful | |
| 桂 | cassia, cinnamon | |
| 硅 | silicon | |
| 哇 | to vomit; an infant's cry | |
| 闺 | women's quarters; lady's apartment | |
| 奎 | a man's stride; a constellation | |
| 卦 | divination, fortune-telling | |
| 洼 | pit, hollow, depression; swamp | |
| 畦 | sections in a vegetable farm | |
| 眭 | a piercing gaze; the evil eye | |
| 筀 | bamboo (archaic) | |
| 絓 | to hinder, to obstruct | |
| 鲑 | salmon; Spheroides vermicularis | |
| 恚 | anger, rage | |
| 诖 | error, mistake; to deceive, to mislead |