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涡

guō

Character Traditional 渦

What 涡 means

1. name of a river

Other readings

涡 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• wōeddy; whirlpool

Example sentences

• 水从喷泉中涌出，在溪流中向下流，在溪涧中奔走，在池塘中安定，在河流中顺势流，在漩涡中回旋，并形成沼泽。
  Water springs out of a fountain, flows downwards in a brook, runs in a beck, stands in a pond, glides in the stream, is whirled about in a whirlpool and causes fens.

Words starting with 涡

• 涡轮wō lúnturbine
• 涡喷wō pēnturbojet
• 涡扇wō shànturbofan
• 涡旋wō xuáneddy; vortex
• 涡核wō héeye of a vortex
• 涡流wō liú(electronics) eddy current
• 涡虫纲wō chóng gāngTurbellaria (an order of flatworms)
• 涡阳县Guō yáng XiànGuoyang, a county in Bozhou City 亳州市
• 涡轮轴发动机wō lún zhóu fā dòng jīturboshaft
• 涡桨wō jiǎngturboprop
• 涡轮喷气发动机wō lún pēn qì fā dòng jīturbojet
• 涡阳Guō yángsee 涡阳县

Words containing 涡

• 漩涡xuán wōwhirlpool; eddy; vortex
• 旋涡xuán wōspiral; whirlpool; eddy
• 圣涡shèng wōdimples of Venus; back dimples
• 旋涡状xuán wō zhuàngspiral-shaped
• 旋涡星系xuán wō xīng xìspiral galaxy
• 旋涡星云xuán wō xīng yúnspiral nebula
• 环极涡旋huán jí wō xuáncircumpolar vortex
• 准稳旋涡结构zhǔn wěn xuán wō jié gòuquasi-stationary spiral structure QSSS (astrophysics)
• 梨涡lí wōdimples (of a woman)
• 笑涡xiào wōvariant of 笑窝
• 酒涡jiǔ wōvariant of 酒窝

Characters built on 呙

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

• 祸huòdisaster; misfortune; calamity
• 锅guōpot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing
• 埚guōcrucible

Characters that look like 涡

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

• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert
• 深shēn(lit. and fig.) deep
• 涕tìtears; nasal mucus
• 埚guōcrucible
• 涓juānbrook; to select
• 浜bāngstream; creek

Sounds the same

Read guō, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 锅pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing
• 郭outer city wall
• 埚crucible
• 聒raucous; clamor; unpleasantly noisy
• 蝈small green cicada or frog (meaning unclear, possibly onom.)…
• 啯sound of swallowing; croak
• 崞name of a mountain
• 𭚦(literary) to draw one's bow to the full; Taiwan pr. kuò
• 过surname Guo
• 呙surname Guo
• 彉variant of 彍