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瓜

guā

HSK 2 Character

What 瓜 means

1. melon; gourd; squash
2. slanga piece of gossip

Example sentences

• 傻瓜。
  Dickhead.
• 它们是瓜。
  They are melons.
• 你个呆瓜！
  You're an idiot.
• 汤姆脑瓜灵。
  Tāngmu nǎoguā líng.
  Tom has a good head on his shoulders.
• 像傻瓜一样！
  You're just like a fool!
• 我在吃西瓜。
  I am eating a watermelon.

Words starting with 瓜

• 瓜子guā zǐmelon seed; seeds of pumpkin, watermelon or sunflower etc, roasted and flavored, consumed…
• 瓜分guā fēnto partition; to divide up
• 瓜果guā guǒfruit (plural sense); melons and fruit
• 瓜葛guā géconnection; association; involvement
• 瓜子脸guā zǐ liǎnoval face
• 瓜代guā dàia changeover of personnel; a new shift; (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the…
• 瓜蒂guā dìpedicel and calyx of muskmelon (used in TCM)
• 瓜农guā nóngmelon farmer
• 瓜拿纳guā ná nàguarana (Paullinia cupana)
• 瓜菜guā càifruit and vegetables
• 瓜达尔Guā dá ěrGwadar, free trade port city in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
• 瓜地马拉Guā dì mǎ lā(Taiwan) Guatemala
• 瓜德罗普Guā dé luó pǔGuadeloupe
• 瓜达拉马Guā dá lā mǎSierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
• 瓜达尔港Guā dá ěr GǎngGwadar Port on Arabian Sea in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
• 瓜达拉哈拉Guā dá lā hā lāGuadalajara
• 瓜达拉马山Guā dá lā mǎ shānSierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
• 瓜熟蒂落guā shú dì luòwhen the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of…
• 瓜田guā tiánmelon field
• 瓜拉丁加奴Guā lā Dīng jiā núKuala Terengganu, capital of Terengganu state, Malaysia
• 瓜州县Guā zhōu XiànGuazhou, a county in Jiuquan City 酒泉市
• 瓜皮帽guā pí màoChinese skullcap resembling the skin of half a watermelon
• 瓜娃子guā wá zi(dialect) fool; a silly
• 瓜脐guā qíthe umbilicus of a melon

Words containing 瓜

• 西瓜xī guāwatermelon
• 黄瓜huáng guācucumber
• 傻瓜shǎ guāidiot; fool
• 南瓜nán guāpumpkin
• 木瓜mù guāpapaya (Carica papaya); genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae…
• 苦瓜kǔ guābitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
• 冬瓜dōng guāwax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida); white gourd; white hairy melon
• 地瓜dì guāsweet potato (Ipomoea batatas); yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus)…
• 丝瓜sī guāluffa; loofah; sponge gourd
• 滚瓜烂熟gǔn guā làn shúlit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently…
• 脑瓜nǎo guāskull; brain; head
• 哈密瓜hā mì guāHami melon (a variety of muskmelon); honeydew melon; cantaloupe
• 吃瓜chī guā(neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or…
• 打瓜dǎ guāa smaller variety of watermelon, with big, edible seeds
• 破瓜pò guā(of a girl) to lose one's virginity; to deflower a virgin; to reach the age of 16
• 越瓜yuè guāsnake melon
• 金瓜jīn guāpumpkin (Gymnopetalum chinense); a mace with a brass head resembling a pumpkin
• 青瓜qīng guā(dialect) cucumber
• 面瓜miàn guā(dialect) pumpkin; (fig.) oaf
• 香瓜xiāng guāoriental melon (Cucumis melo Makuwa Group); cantaloupe; muskmelon (Cucumis melo)
• 麻瓜Má guāMuggles (Harry Potter)
• 佛手瓜fó shǒu guāchayote (Sechium edule); choko; mirliton
• 地瓜干dì guā gāndried sweet potato slices
• 地瓜面dì guā miànsweet potato or yam noodles

Characters that look like 瓜

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

• 压yāto press; to push down; to keep under (control)
• 爪zhuǎ(colloquial) foot of an animal or bird; (colloquial) foot supporting a cooking pot etc
• 劦lièunending exertion

Sounds the same

Read guā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 刮to scrape; to blow; to shave
• 呱used in 呱呱
• 胍guanidine
• 栝Juniperus chinensis; measuring-frame
• 鸹used in 老鸹
• 劀(archaic) to scrape away decayed flesh or pus
• 筈arrow end
• 䯄piebald horse