蛤
há
2 readings · tap one to hear it
(bound form) clam; used in 蛤蚧[ge2 jie4]
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 虫 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 蛤
- Common rank
- #2,618
- Unicode
- U+86E4
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 蛤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 女神蛤 | geoduck (Panopea abrupta); elephant trunk clam; same as 象拔蚌[xiang4 ba2 bang4] | |
| 鸟尾蛤 | cockle (mollusk of the family Cardiidae) | |
| 巨海扇蛤 | great scallop (Pecten maxiumus); king scallop | |
| 花蛤 | clam; bivalve mollusk, many spp. | |
| 文蛤 | clam; bivalve mollusk, many spp. | |
| 鸟蛤 | cockle (mollusk of the family Cardiidae) | |
| 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉 | lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom); fig. to try to punch above one's weight | |
| 蛤蟆镜 | aviator sunglasses | |
| 蛤蟹 | clams and crabs; tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) | |
| 蛤蚌 | clam | |
| 蛤蟆夯 | power-driven rammer or tamper | |
| 蛤蟆 | frog; toad | |
| 蛤蛎 | clam; same as 蛤蜊[ge2 li2] | |
| 癞蛤蟆 | toad | |
| 蛤蚧 | tokay gecko (Gekko gecko), used in TCM | |
| 蛤蜊 | clam |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 合 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 合 sound part | to combine, to join, to unite; to gather | |
| 哈 | the sound of laughter | |
| 拿 | to bring, to grasp, to hold, to take | |
| 给 | to give, to lend; for, by | |
| 盒 | small box or case; casket | |
| 鸽 | pigeon, dove; Columba species (various) | |
| 恰 | just, exactly, precisely; proper | |
| 颌 | mouth; jaw | |
| 龛 | niche, shrine | |
| 峇 | cave, cavern | |
| 袷 | lined garment | |
| 荅 | to answer; small bean; thick, heavy | |
| 饸 | buckwheat or sorghum noodles | |
| 耠 | to dig, to till | |
| 铪 | hafnium |