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苟

gǒu

HSK 6 Character

What 苟 means

1. literaryif indeed
2. bound formcareless; negligent
3. bound formtemporarily

Other readings

苟 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Gǒusurname Gou

Words starting with 苟

• 苟同gǒu tóngto agree blindly
• 苟延残喘gǒu yán cán chuǎn(idiom) to struggle on whilst at death's door
• 苟且gǒu qiěperfunctory; careless; drifting along
• 苟取gǒu qǔ(literary) to extort; to take as bribe
• 苟合gǒu héillicit sexual relations
• 苟存gǒu cúnto drift through life
• 苟活gǒu huóto live without dignity; to barely sustain oneself
• 苟且偷安gǒu qiě tōu ānseeking only ease and comfort (idiom); making no attempt to improve oneself…
• 苟且偷生gǒu qiě tōu shēngto drift and live without purpose (idiom); to drag out an ignoble existence
• 苟富贵，勿相忘gǒu fù guì , wù xiāng wàngdon't forget your friends when you become rich
• 苟安gǒu ānsee 苟且偷安

Words containing 苟

• 一丝不苟yī sī bù gǒunot one thread loose (idiom); strictly according to the rules; meticulous…
• 不苟bù gǒunot lax; not casual; careful
• 不敢苟同bù gǎn gǒu tóngto beg to differ (idiom)
• 未敢苟同wèi gǎn gǒu tóngcan't agree with
• 蝇营狗苟yíng yíng gǒu gǒu(lit.) to swarm like flies around rotten food and drag out an ignoble existence like a…
• 一笔不苟yī bǐ bù gǒulit. not even one stroke is negligent (idiom); fig. to write characters (calligraphy) in…

Characters built on 句

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

• 够gòuenough (sufficient); enough (too much); (colloquial) (before adj.) really
• 狗gǒudog
• 枸gōubent; crooked
• 佝gōuused in 佝偻; Taiwan pr. kòu
• 笱gǒubasket for trapping fish
• 岣gǒuname of a hill in Hunan

Characters that look like 苟

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

• 男nán(bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位
• 苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain
• 芸yúncommon rue (Ruta graveolens)…
• 苣jùused in 莴苣
• 酉yǒu10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the…
• 苜mùclover

Sounds the same

Read gǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 狗dog
• 笱basket for trapping fish
• 岣name of a hill in Hunan
• 耇wrinkled face of the elderly
• 枸used in 枸骨; used in 枸杞
• 耈old variant of 耇
• 耉old variant of 耇