Chinese Notes

瓜 guā

guā noun melon; gourd; squash
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink , Concept: Vegetable 蔬菜
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '瓜'; Guoyu '瓜' n 1; Unihan '瓜'; Wikipedia '瓜')
guā noun Kangxi radical 97
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '瓜' n 2)

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傻瓜 idiot; fool
强扭的瓜不甜(強扭的瓜不甜) if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist)
巴拉圭瓜拉尼 Paraguay guarani
越瓜 snake melon
捡了芝麻丢了西瓜(撿了芝麻丟了西瓜) to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles
瓜无滚圆，人无十全(瓜無滾圓，人無十全) no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect
瓜蒂 pedicel and calyx of muskmelon (used in TCM)
腌黄瓜(醃黃瓜) pickle
酱瓜(醬瓜) pickled cucumber
南瓜 pumpkin
寒瓜 watermelon
木瓜 papaya
香瓜 cantaloupe melon
瓜分 to divide up; to partition
牛角瓜 crown plant; crown flower; madar
面瓜 pumpkin; (fig.) oaf
糖瓜 malt sugar candy
破瓜 (of a girl) to lose one's virginity; to deflower a virgin; to reach the age of 16; (of a man) to reach the age of 64
哈蜜瓜 Hami melon (a variety of muskmelon); honeydew melon; cantaloupe
矮瓜 eggplant
地瓜面(地瓜麵) sweet potato or yam noodles
苦瓜脸(苦瓜臉) sour expression on one's face
歪瓜劣枣(歪瓜劣棗) ugly; repulsive
南瓜灯(南瓜燈) jack-o'-lantern
瓜子脸(瓜子臉) oval face
意大利青瓜 zucchini
瓜农(瓜農) melon farmer
佛手瓜 chayote; alligator pear
傻瓜相机(傻瓜相機) point-and-shoot camera; compact camera
滚瓜烂熟(滾瓜爛熟) ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine; to know fluently; to know something inside out
甜瓜 muskmelon
瓜熟蒂落 when a mellon is ripe it falls
瓜脐(瓜臍) the umbilicus of a melon
脑瓜(腦瓜) skull; brain; head; mind; mentality; ideas
瓜田不纳履，李下不整冠(瓜田不納履，李下不整冠) don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree; don't do anything that might arouse suspicion
瓜皮帽 Chinese skullcap resembling the skin of half a watermelon
白兰瓜(白蘭瓜) honeydew melon
瓜果 fruit (plural sense); melons and fruit
拍黄瓜(拍黃瓜) smashed cucumber salad

Also contained in

麻瓜、瓜洲、安提瓜、瓜达拉马、瓜达拉哈拉、安提瓜岛、金瓜石、瓜达卡纳尔战役、瓜州、阿空加瓜山、努瓜娄发、瓜哇

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卷六十四志第四十儀衞 Volume 64 Treatises 40: Ceremonial Guards History of Ming 明史 — count: 22
《瓜部》 Guā Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 15
Scroll 7 Xin Shu 新書 — count: 13
第六十六回 Chapter 66 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 13
卷五十志第三天文三 Volume 50 Treatises 3: Astronomy 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 9
卷二十九志第十九符瑞下 Volume 29 Treatises 19: Auspicious Signs 3 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 7
卷七十九　志第二十九: 　輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 7
卷五十九志第十二天文十二 Volume 59 Treatises 12: Astronomy 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 6
卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
卷七十四四夷附錄第三: 奚吐渾達靼党項突厥吐蕃回鶻于闐高麗渤海新羅黑水靺鞨南詔蠻牂牁昆明占城 Volume 74: Appendix on the Four Barbarians 3 - Xi, Tuyuhun, Dada, Tangut, Tujie, Tubo, Huihu, Yutian, Goryeo, Bohai, Silla, Heishui Tungusic tribes, Nanzhao Man, Zhangke, Kunming, Champa New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 6

Collocations

匏瓜 (匏瓜) 吾豈匏瓜也哉 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 17. 《陽貨》 Yang Huo — count: 10
瓜瓠 (瓜瓠) 瓜瓠不成 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 8
种瓜 (種瓜) 梁之邊亭與楚之邊亭皆種瓜 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 7 — count: 7
嘉瓜 (嘉瓜) 时以为嘉瓜 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第十四五行二災火草妖羽蟲孽羊禍 Volume 104: Five Elements Part Two — count: 7
瓜里 (瓜裡) 有瓜里津 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第二十二郡國四青州荊州揚州 Volume 112: Commanderies and States Part Three — count: 5
瓜生 (瓜生) 王瓜生 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 5
瓜瓞 (瓜瓞) 緜緜瓜瓞 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧緜 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Mian — count: 4
瓜衍 (瓜衍) 亦賞士伯以瓜衍之縣 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
瓜田 (瓜田) 臨淮瓜田儀等為盜賊 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十九下王莽傳 Volume 99c: Wang Mang 3 — count: 3
瓜牛 (瓜牛) 自作一瓜牛廬 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十一魏書十一袁張涼國田王邴管傳 Volume 11: Book of Wei 11 - Biographies of Yuan, Zhang, Liang, Guo, Tian, Wang, Bing, and Guan — count: 3