颗
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classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 頁 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 顆
- Common rank
- #3,365
- Unicode
- U+9897
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 颗
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤 | lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom); fig. one bad apple can… | |
| 一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 | see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yi1 li4 lao3 shu3 shi3 huai4 le5 yi1 guo1 zhou1] | |
| 颗粒无收 | not a single grain was reaped (as in a bad harvest year) | |
| 细颗粒物 | fine particle (PM 2.5); fine particulate matter (air pollution etc) | |
| 颗粒物 | particulate matter (PM) | |
| 颗粒归仓 | to gather all the harvested grain into the granary; to harvest every single grain | |
| 分泌颗粒 | secretory granule | |
| 颗粒 | kernel; granule; granulated (sugar, chemical product) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 页 — compare how they read.