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瘸

qué

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

瘸 (qué) means "lame". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 瘸 means

1. lame

Words starting with 瘸

• 瘸子qué zilame person (colloquial)
• 瘸腿qué tuǐcrippled; lame; a cripple
• 瘸帮Qué bāngCrips (gang)

Words containing 瘸

• 一瘸一拐yī qué yī guǎito limp; to hobble

Characters that look like 瘸

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

• 擦cāto rub; to scratch; to wipe; to polish; to apply (lipstick, lotion etc)
• 瘤liútumor
• 藉jiè(literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
• 瘢bānmark; scar on the skin
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)
• 擞sǒuused in 抖擞

Where 瘸 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · quǎn–què (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qué correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.