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腔

qiāng

HSK 6 Character

What 腔 means

1. bound formcavity
2. bound formspeech; talk
3. tune
4. accent (in one's speech)
5. oldclassifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock

Example sentences

• 汤姆说话的法国腔很重。
  Tāngmǔ shuōhuà de Fǎguó qiāng hěn zhòng.
  Tom has a very strong French accent.
• 派对主席说话时有葡萄牙腔
  Pàiduì zhǔxí shuōhuà shí yǒu Pútáoyá qiāng
  The party host had a Portuguese accent.

Words starting with 腔

• 腔调qiāng diàoa tune; a melody; accent (distinctive way of pronouncing a language)
• 腔壁qiāng bìcavity wall
• 腔子qiāng zithoracic cavity; intonation; accent
• 腔肠动物qiāng cháng dòng wùCoelenterata (such as jellyfish)
• 腔隙qiāng xìlacuna; gap
• 腔棘鱼qiāng jí yúcoelacanth

Words containing 腔

• 口腔kǒu qiāngoral cavity
• 唱腔chàng qiāngvocal music (in opera); aria
• 满腔mǎn qiāngone's heart filled with; full of (joy)
• 胸腔xiōng qiāngthoracic cavity
• 秦腔Qín qiāngQinqiang, an opera style popular in northwest China, possibly originating in Ming dynasty…
• 哭腔kū qiāngsobbing tone; sob; dirge
• 装腔作势zhuāng qiāng zuò shìposturing; pretentious; affected
• 腹腔fù qiāngabdominal cavity
• 鼻腔bí qiāngnasal cavity
• 字正腔圆zì zhèng qiāng yuánto enunciate beautifully (in speaking or singing) (idiom)
• 搭腔dā qiāngto answer; to respond; to converse
• 开腔kāi qiāngto speak out; to start speaking
• 帮腔bāng qiāngvocal accompaniment in some traditional Chinese operas; to speak in support of…
• 娘娘腔niáng niang qiāngsissy; effeminate
• 汉腔Hàn qiāngWuhan accent
• 空腔kōng qiāngcavity
• 答腔dā qiāngto answer; to respond; to converse
• 花腔huā qiāngflorid ornamentation in opera; coloratura
• 贫腔pín qiāngverbose; garrulous
• 体腔tǐ qiāngbody cavity; coelom (biology)
• 高腔gāo qiānggaoqiang, high-pitched opera singing style
• 黄腔huáng qiānglewd comment; vulgar joke
• 口腔炎kǒu qiāng yánstomatitis; ulceration of oral cavity; inflammation of the mucous lining of the mouth
• 打官腔dǎ guān qiāngto talk officiously; to assume the air of a functionary; to talk in official jargon

Characters that look like 腔

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

• 控kòngto control; to accuse; to charge
• 毁huǐto destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander
• 腊làancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month…
• 躯qūhuman body
• 跤jiāoa tumble; a fall
• 猕míused in 猕猴

Sounds the same

Read qiāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 枪gun; firearm; rifle
• 羌muntjac; grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical)
• 呛to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)
• 将to desire; to invite; to request
• 抢(literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage)…
• 跄walk rapidly
• 锵tinkling of small bells
• 戕to kill; to injure; Taiwan pr. qiáng
• 戗contrary; pushing against; bump
• 蜣dung beetle
• 镪sulfuric acid
• 锖the color of a mineral