芡 qiàn

qiàn noun plant allied to the waterlily
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '芡'; Guoyu '芡' n; Mathews 1931 '芡', p. 124; Unihan '芡')

Contained in

• 粉芡 cooking starch; pasty mixture of starch and water
• 芡粉 cornstarch; powder made from Gorgon fruit
• 芡实(芡實) Gorgon fruit; Semen euryales
• 勾芡 to thicken with cornstarch

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷三 Scroll 3 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
• 卷一百〇八 志第六十一 禮十一 Volume 108 Treatises 61: Rites 11 History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
• 卷二十八　志第九:　禮一 郊 Volume 28 Treatises 9: Rites 1 - Jiao History of Jin 金史 — count: 2
• 卷三十四　志第十五:　禮七 社稷 風雨雷師 嶽鎮海瀆 Volume 34 Treatises 15: Rites 7 - Gods of Earth and Grain; Masters of Wind, Rain, and Thunder; Mountains, Cities, Seas, and Rivers History of Jin 金史 — count: 2
• 卷四 Scroll 4 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
• 卷七十三　志第二十四: 　祭祀二 Volume 73 Treatises 26: Offerings 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 1
• 卷七十二　志第二十三: 　祭祀一 Volume 72 Treatises 25: Offerings 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 1
• 卷三十　　志第十一:　禮三 宗廟 禘袷 朝享、時享儀 Volume 30 Treatises 11: Rites 3 - Ancestral Temples, Dijia, Worshipping, Seasonal Rituals History of Jin 金史 — count: 1
• 卷七十五　志第二十六: 　祭祀四 Volume 75 Treatises 28: Offerings 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 1
• 卷五十一 志第二十七 禮五 Volume 51 Treatises 27: Rites 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 1

Collocations

• 菱芡 (菱芡) 益蓄果實菱芡 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十九 循吏傳 Volume 89: Upright Officials — count: 15
• 干芡 (乾芡) 乾芡乾栗鹿脯次之 — History of Jin 金史, 卷二十八　志第九:　禮一 郊 Volume 28 Treatises 9: Rites 1 - Jiao — count: 2