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簧

huáng

Character

What 簧 means

1. reed (of a music instrument)
2. spring; coil

Example sentences

• 我必须拿我的双簧管去修理。
  Wǒ bìxū ná wǒ de shuānghuángguǎn qù xiūlǐ.
  I must take my oboe for repair.
• 汤姆和玛丽都不会吹单簧管。
  Neither Tom nor Mary knows how to play the clarinet.
• 木管乐器组中包含无簧片管乐器与簧片管乐器。
  The woodwind section includes both pipes and reeds.

Words starting with 簧

• 簧片huáng piànreed (music)
• 簧管huáng guǎnreed pipe
• 簧舌huáng shéthe lip or vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument
• 簧风琴huáng fēng qínharmonium

Words containing 簧

• 弹簧tán huángspring
• 叉簧chā huángswitch hook (button or cradle of a telephone, whose function is to disconnect the call)
• 口簧kǒu huángJew's harp
• 双簧shuāng huánga form of theatrical double act in which one performer speaks or sings while the other…
• 口簧琴kǒu huáng qínJew's harp
• 唱双簧chàng shuāng huánglit. to sing a duet; fig. to collaborate with sb; also used satirically: to play second…
• 单簧管dān huáng guǎnclarinet
• 弹簧刀tán huáng dāoflick knife; switchblade; spring-loaded knife
• 弹簧锁tán huáng suǒspring lock
• 弹簧门tán huáng ménswing door
• 双簧管shuāng huáng guǎndouble reed wind instrument (such as oboe or bassoon)
• 如簧之舌rú huáng zhī shélit. a tongue like a reed (idiom); fig. a glib tongue
• 巧舌如簧qiǎo shé rú huánglit. to have a tongue like the reed of a wind instrument (idiom)…
• 弹簧垫圈tán huáng diàn quānspring washer
• 弹簧秤tán huáng chèngspring balance
• 绷簧bēng huángspring
• 笙簧shēng huángreeds of a panpipe
• 箜簧kōng huángold reed wind instrument; (possibly used erroneously for konghou 箜篌 harp or 笙簧 sheng)
• 二簧èr huángvariant of 二黄

Characters built on 黄

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

• 磺huángsulfur
• 潢huángdye paper; lake; pond
• 璜huángsemicircular jade ornament
• 蟥huánghorse-leech

Characters that look like 簧

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

• 蕾lěibud
• 薯shǔpotato; yam
• 霞xiárose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset
• 螯áochela; nippers; claw; pincers (of crabs, lobsters, scorpions etc)
• 蹙cùto knit (one's brows); wrinkled (of brows); to hesitate
• 瞽gǔblind; undiscerning

Sounds the same

Read huáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 黄yellow; pornographic; to fall through
• 皇emperor; old variant of 惶
• 煌brilliant
• 凰used in 凤凰
• 惶(bound form) fear; dread; anxiety; trepidation
• 湟name of a river
• 遑leisure
• 蝗locust
• 磺sulfur
• 潢dye paper; lake; pond
• 璜semicircular jade ornament
• 徨used in 彷徨