靛
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indigo pigment
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 靑 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 靛
- Common rank
- #3,081
- Unicode
- U+975B
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Formation & memory
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Words with 靛
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 靛蓝色 | indigo blue | |
| 靛冠噪鹛 | (bird species of China) blue-crowned laughingthrush (Pterorhinus courtoisi) | |
| 山靛 | (botany) the spurges, the mercuries (plants of genus Mercurialis) | |
| 靛白 | indigo white | |
| 靛花 | indigo | |
| 靛色 | indigo (color) | |
| 靛油 | aniline oil | |
| 青靛 | indigo | |
| 靛青 | indigo | |
| 蓝靛 | indigo | |
| 靛蓝 | indigo (dye) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 定 — compare how they read.