驼
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hump or hunchbacked; camel
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 馬 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 駝
- Common rank
- #2,252
- Unicode
- U+9A7C
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Formation & memory
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Words with 驼
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 驼峰命名法 | (computing) CamelCase | |
| 压死骆驼的最后一根稻草 | the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom); the final straw | |
| 大羊驼 | llama | |
| 小羊驼 | (zoology) vicuña | |
| 瘦死的骆驼比马大 | lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom); fig. even after suffering a loss… | |
| 锅驼机 | portable steam engine | |
| 单峰驼 | dromedary | |
| 驼子 | hunchback | |
| 驼色 | light tan (color); camel-hair color | |
| 驼鸡 | ostrich (Struthio camelus); also written 鴕鳥|鸵鸟[tuo2 niao3]; fabulous bird like Sinbad's ro… | |
| 弯腰驼背 | slouch; stoop; poor posture | |
| 驼背 | hunchbacked; stooping; hunchback | |
| 微驼 | stooping; hunched | |
| 羊驼 | alpaca | |
| 驼峰 | hump of a camel; hump (in a railroad hump yard) | |
| 驼背鲸 | humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) | |
| 骆驼祥子 | Camel Xiangzi, novel by Lao She 老舍[Lao3 She3] | |
| 驼鹿 | elk; moose | |
| 驯驼 | to tame a camel | |
| 晒骆驼 | xylitol (Cantonese); see also 木糖醇[mu4 tang2 chun2] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 它 — compare how they read.