瓜 guā
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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)
Contained in
- 打瓜 a smaller variety of watermelon
- 瓜子 melon seeds ; to hit with two fingers
- 越瓜 snake melon
- 木瓜 papaya
- 王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸(王婆賣瓜，自賣自誇) every potter praises his own pot; all one's geese are swans
- 吃瓜群众(吃瓜群眾) peanut gallery (esp. in online forums)
- 冬瓜 winter melon; white gourd
- 厚皮甜瓜 muskmelon
- 青瓜 cucumber
- 瓜拿纳(瓜拿納) guarana (Paullinia cupana)
- 寒瓜 watermelon
- 海瓜子 Tellina iridescens (a bivalve mollusk); any similar small clam
- 黄瓜(黃瓜) cucumber
- 阿空加瓜 Cerro Aconcagua, mountain in the Americas
- 糖瓜 malt sugar candy
- 拍黄瓜(拍黃瓜) smashed cucumber salad
- 苦瓜脸(苦瓜臉) sour expression on one's face
- 瓜皮帽 Chinese skullcap resembling the skin of half a watermelon
- 瓜子脸(瓜子臉) oval face
- 机哩瓜拉(機哩瓜拉) to jabber; to rumble
- 南瓜灯(南瓜燈) jack-o'-lantern
- 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)
- 金丝瓜(金絲瓜) spaghetti squash
- 番木瓜 papaya
- 瓜蒂 pedicel and calyx of muskmelon (used in TCM)
- 瓜脐(瓜臍) the umbilicus of a melon
- 脑瓜(腦瓜) skull; brain; head; mind; mentality; ideas
- 香瓜 cantaloupe melon
- 酱瓜(醬瓜) pickled cucumber
- 菜瓜 snake melon; loofah
- 小黄瓜(小黃瓜) gherkin
- 番瓜 a pumkin
- 金瓜 pumpkin (Gymnopetalum chinense); a mace with a brass head resembling a pumpkin
- 顺藤摸瓜(順藤摸瓜) to follow the vine to get to the melon; to track sth following clues
- 牛角瓜 crown plant; crown flower; madar
- 笨瓜 fool; blockhead
- 弥瓜(彌瓜) a kind of mellon
- 瓜果 fruit (plural sense); melons and fruit
- 西瓜 watermelon
- 茭瓜 wild rice shoots
- 歪瓜劣枣(歪瓜劣棗) ugly; repulsive
- 傻瓜相机(傻瓜相機) point-and-shoot camera; compact camera
Also contained in
瓜达拉马山 、 瓜哇 、 瓜步 、 瓜地马拉 、 瓜州县 、 安提瓜岛 、 马那瓜 、 阿空加瓜山 、 麻瓜
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Truncated for common words
- 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
- 第六十六回 Chapter 66 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 13
- Scroll 7 Xin Shu 新書 — 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
- 卷一百十六 列傳第六十六: 肅宗代宗諸子 Volume 116 Biographies 66: Suzong and Daizong's Sons Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 6
- 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 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
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
- 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
- 种瓜 (種瓜) 梁之邊亭與楚之邊亭皆種瓜 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 7 — 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
- 瓜美 (瓜美) 其瓜美 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 7 — count: 3