蜻
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see 蜻蜓[qing1 ting2]
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 虫 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 蜻
- Common rank
- #3,262
- Unicode
- U+873B
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 蜻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蜻蜓点水 | lit. the dragonfly touches the water lightly; superficial contact (idiom) | |
| 剑走蜻蛉 | the sword moves like a dragon-fly (modern idiom); fig. unexpected winning move; unconventi… | |
| 蜻蜓撼石柱 | lit. the dragon-fly shakes the stone tower (idiom); fig. to overestimate one's capabilitie… | |
| 草蜻蛉 | green lacewing | |
| 蜻蛉目 | Odonata, order consisting of about 6,000 species of dragonflies and damselflies | |
| 蜻蜓目 | Odonata, order consisting of about 6,000 species of dragonflies and damselflies | |
| 蜻蛉 | damselfly; lacewing | |
| 蜻蜓 | dragonfly | |
| 蜻蝏 | variant of 蜻蜓[qing1 ting2] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 青 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 青 sound part | nature's color; blue, green, black; young | |
| 情 | emotion, feeling, sentiment | |
| 清 | clean, pure; clear, distinct; peaceful | |
| 精 | essence, germ, spirit | |
| 请 | to ask, to request; to invite; please | |
| 氰 | cyanogen; ethane dinitrile | |
| 睛 | eyeball; pupil | |
| 猜 | to guess, to conjecture, to suppose; to feel | |
| 晴 | clear weather, fine weather | |
| 靓 | ornament; pretty; to apply make-up | |
| 菁 | turnip; a flower of the leek family | |
| 腈 | acrylic | |
| 箐 | to draw a bamboo bow | |
| 鲭 | mackerel | |
| 鼱 | shrew | |
| 圊 | restroom |