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芹

qín

Character

What 芹 means

1. Chinese celery

Example sentences

• 我在削芹菜和土豆。
  Wǒ zài xiāo qíncài hé tǔdòu.
  I'm peeling the celery and the potatoes.
• 用于那个义大利酱的香草可能是荷兰芹。
  Yòng yú nàge Yìdàlì jiàng de xiāngcǎo kěnéng shì hélánqín.
  The herb used in that pasta sauce might be parsley.
• 这里种植有生菜、高丽菜和芹菜等高原蔬菜。
  Tableland vegetables are grown here, such as lettuce, cabbage, and celery.
• 这个汤里有胡萝卜、洋葱、欧芹、芹菜和土豆。
  Zhège tāng lǐ yǒu húluóbo, yángcōng, ōuqín, qíncài hé tǔdòu.
  In this soup there are carrots, onions, parsley, celery and potatoes.

Words starting with 芹

• 芹菜qín càicelery (Apium graveolens)

Words containing 芹

• 曹雪芹Cáo Xuě qínCao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 红楼梦
• 欧芹ōu qínparsley (Petroselinum sativum)
• 西芹xī qíncelery; parsley
• 刺芹菇cì qín gūking trumpet mushroom (Pleurotus eryngii)
• 大星芹dà xīng qíngreat masterwort (Astrantia major)
• 孜然芹zī rán qíncumin
• 海刺芹hǎi cì qínsea holly (Eryngium maritimum)
• 羊角芹yáng jiǎo qínground-elder (Aegopodium podagraria)
• 荷兰芹hé lán qínparsley
• 皱叶欧芹zhòu yè ōu qíncurled-leaf parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
• 茴芹huí qínanise (Pimpinella anisum); aniseed; chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)

Characters built on 斤

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

• 新xīnnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
• 近jìnnear; close to; approximately
• 欣xīnhappy
• 昕xīndawn
• 靳jìnmartingale; stingy
• 忻xīnhappy

Characters that look like 芹

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

• 声shēngsound; voice; tone
• 异yìdifferent; other; hetero-
• 芦lúrush; reed; Phragmites communis
• 斧fǔhatchet
• 芮ruìsmall
• 畀bìto confer on; to give to

Sounds the same

Read qín, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 琴guqin 古琴; musical instrument in general
• 勤diligent; industrious; hardworking; frequent; regular; constant; (bound form) work; duty…
• 禽(bound form) birds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals; old variant of 擒
• 擒to capture
• 噙to hold in (usually refers the mouth or eyes)
• 嗪used in phonetic transcription -xine, -zine or -chin
• 螓small cicada with a square head
• 檎used in 林檎
• 芩Phragmites japonica
• 慬(literary) brave; worried; distressed
• 庈(person)
• 锓to carve