瓜 - guā - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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瓜

guā

Definition

melon
graphic and meaning component (melon)
radical (Kang Xi 97)
gourd
squash

Character Decomposition

Compounds (19)

孤

gū

lone; lonely; alone; solitary; isolated; orphan

fox

petal; segment; clove (of garlic); piece; section; fragment; valve; lamella; classifier (for pieces, segments etc); measure word

arc

dipper; ladle

crying sound of child

瓤

ráng

pulp (of fruit); sth inside a covering; bad; weak

guanidine

gourd

large fishing net

goblet; rule; law

bad; useless; weak

young melon

bad; useless; weak

lowland swamp

name of a river

big bone

fruit of plants (not of trees)

蛌

gǔ

cricket

Related words (59)

瓜代

guā dài

a change-over of personnel; a new shift; (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon picking season

melon farmer

to partition; to divide up

melon seeds

fruit (plural sense); melons and fruit

瓜脐

guā qí

the umbilicus of a melon

fruit and vegetables

intertwined (as melon and vine plants); interconnected; association (of two things)

瓜蒂

guā dì

stem or pedicel of a melon

oval face

guarana (Paullinia cupana)

瓜田李下

guā tián lǐ xià

abbr. for 瓜田不納履，李下不整冠|瓜田不纳履，李下不整冠[gua1 tian2 bu4 na4 lu:3 , li3 xia4 bu4 zheng3 guan1]

luffa (loofah)

(dialect) pumpkin

idiot; fool

wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida); winter melon; white gourd; white hairy melon; Chinese squash

pumpkin

idiot; fool

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas); yam (family Dioscoreaceae)

打瓜

dǎ guā

a smaller variety of watermelon, with big, edible seeds

木瓜

mù guā

papaya (Carica papaya); genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae; Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)

bottle gourd

muskmelon

(dialect) pumpkin

eggplant (Cantonese)

(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

fool; blockhead

malt sugar candy, a traditional offering to the kitchen god Zaoshen 灶神

cucumber

skull; brain; head; mind; mentality; ideas

苦瓜

kǔ guā

bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)

snake melon; loofah

white flowered gourd or calabash (family Crescentia)

watermelon

snake melon

pickled cucumber

pumpkin (Gymnopetalum chinense); a mace with a brass head resembling a pumpkin

cucumber

(dialect) pumpkin; (fig.) oaf

cantaloupe melon

cucumber

chayote or alligator pear (Sechium edule)

jack-o'-lantern

see 佛手瓜

sweet potato or yam noodles

gherkin

papaya

honeydew melon

smelt (family Osmeridae)

see 脑瓜

pickle

sour expression on one's face

鱼翅瓜

yú chì guā

spaghetti squash (Cucurbita pepo)

傻瓜相机

shǎ guā xiàng jī

point-and-shoot camera; compact camera

(Taiwan) see 叽哩咕噜

ugly; repulsive; also written 歪瓜裂枣

ugly; repulsive

(of animals) round and fat

顺藤摸瓜

shùn téng mō guā

(lit.) to follow the vine to get to the melon; to track sth following clues

Idioms (3)

瓜熟蒂落

guā shú dì luò

when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time

滚瓜烂熟

gǔn guā làn shú

(lit.) ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently; to know sth inside out; to know sth by heart

捡了芝麻丢了西瓜

jiǎn le zhī ma diū le xī guā

to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)

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