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媾

gòu

Character

What 媾 means

1. to marry
2. to copulate

Words starting with 媾

• 媾合gòu héto copulate
• 媾和gòu héto make peace; to copulate

Words containing 媾

• 交媾jiāo gòuto have sex; to copulate
• 性媾xìng gòusexual intercourse

Characters built on 冓

These share the phonetic component 冓 (gòu), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 篝gōubamboo frame for drying clothes; bamboo cage
• 遘gòumeet unexpectedly
• 觏gòucomplete; meet unexpectedly; see

Characters that look like 媾

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 榻tàcouch
• 嫣yān(literary) lovely; sweet
• 殡bìna funeral; to encoffin a corpse; to carry to burial
• 慵yōnglethargic
• 缥piāoused in 缥渺; Taiwan pr. piǎo
• 嫡dí(bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with 庶

Sounds the same

Read gòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 够enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (colloquial) (before adj.) really
• 购to buy; to purchase
• 构to construct; to form; to make up
• 垢dirt; disgrace
• 勾used in 勾当
• 诟disgrace; to revile
• 彀to draw a bow to the full; the range of a bow and arrow; old variant of 够
• 遘meet unexpectedly
• 姤copulate; good
• 冓inner rooms of palace; ten billions
• 觏complete; meet unexpectedly; see
• 雊crowing of pheasant