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莴

wō

Character Traditional 萵

What 莴 means

1. used in {莴苣|wō jù}
2. used in {莴笋|wō sǔn}

Example sentences

• 我应该洗莴苣吗？
  Should I wash the lettuce?
• 蜗牛一直在吃我们的莴苣。
  Wōniú yīzhí zài chī wǒmen de wōjù.
  Snails have been eating our lettuces.
• 「汤姆像切卷心莴苣一样，把手稿切碎了。」「听起来很残忍。」「没错，而且也没有那个必要。」
  "Tom chopped up the manuscript like it was iceberg lettuce." "Sounds brutal." "It was, but it was also necessary."

Words starting with 莴

• 莴笋wō sǔnceltuce; stem lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. asparagina), aka Chinese lettuce
• 莴苣wō jùlettuce (Lactuca sativa)

Characters built on 呙

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

• 窝wōnest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair
• 蜗wōsnail; Taiwan pr. guā; see 蜗牛

Characters that look like 莴

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

• 离líto leave; to part from; to be away from
• 莱láiname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 巢cháonest
• 茜qiàn(bound form) Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia); (bound form) madder red…
• 禺yú(archaic) district; (old) type of monkey
• 菡hànlotus blossom

Sounds the same

Read wō, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 窝nest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair
• 倭dwarf; Japanese (derog.) (old)
• 喔(onomatopoeia) cry of a rooster (usu. reduplicated); Taiwan pr. wò
• 涡eddy; whirlpool
• 挝used 老挝
• 蜗snail; Taiwan pr. guā; see 蜗牛
• 薶to make dirty; to soil
• 踒to slip and sprain a limb