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葱

cōng

Character Traditional 蔥

What 葱 means

1. scallion
2. green onion

Example sentences

• 我爱洋葱！
  I love onions!
• 我不喜欢葱。
  I don't like green onions.
• 我喜欢洋葱。
  I like onion.
• 我不喜欢吃洋葱。
  I don't like to eat onions.
• 洋葱比马铃薯快熟。
  Onions cook more quickly than potatoes.
• 我不喜欢洋葱的味道。
  Wǒ bù xǐhuan yángcōng de wèidao.
  I don't like the taste of onions.

Words starting with 葱

• 葱花cōng huāchopped green onions
• 葱茏cōng lóngverdant and lush
• 葱属cōng shǔgenus Allium
• 葱岭Cōng lǐngold name for the Pamirs 帕米尔高原
• 葱白cōng báithe white part of a green onion or scallion
• 葱绿cōng lǜverdant
• 葱翠cōng cuìfresh green
• 葱葱cōng cōngverdant and thick (foliage, grass etc)
• 葱头cōng tóuonion
• 葱郁cōng yùverdant; lush green and full of life
• 葱黄cōng huángyellow green
• 葱抓饼cōng zhuā bǐngflaky scallion pancake (made with dough, not batter)
• 葱油饼cōng yóu bǐngscallion pancake

Words containing 葱

• 洋葱yáng cōngonion (Allium cepa); bulb onion
• 郁郁葱葱yù yù cōng cōng(idiom) (of plants) verdant; lush
• 大葱dà cōngleek; Chinese onion
• 青葱qīng cōngscallion; green onion; verdant
• 小葱xiǎo cōnggreen onion; spring onion
• 洋葱圈yáng cōng quānonion ring
• 细香葱xì xiāng cōngchive
• 金葱粉jīn cōng fěnglitter (sparkling material)
• 金葱胶jīn cōng jiāoglitter glue
• 算哪根葱suàn nǎ gēn cōngwho do (you) think (you) are?; who does (he, she etc) think (he, she) is?
• 虾夷葱xiā yí cōngchive
• 倒栽葱dào zāi cōngto fall headlong; (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure

Characters that look like 葱

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

• 票piàoticket; ballot; banknote
• 惹rěto provoke; to irritate; to vex
• 粟sùmillet; (metonym) grain
• 雳lìused in 霹雳
• 禀bǐngto make a report (to a superior); to give; to endow
• 菖chāngsee 菖蒲

Sounds the same

Read cōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 聪(literary) acute (of hearing); (bound form) clever; intelligent; sharp
• 匆hurried; hasty
• 璁stone similar to jade
• 囱(bound form) chimney
• 枞fir tree
• 苁Boschniakia glabra
• 骢buckskin horse
• 熜chimney (old)
• 𪻐used in 瑽瑢
• 鍐a headstall, ornament on a bridle
• 鏦spear; to plunge (with spear)
• 聡old variant of 聪