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蒜

suàn

Character Measure word 头、瓣

What 蒜 means

1. garlic

Example sentences

• 我爱大蒜！
  I love garlic!
• 不要装蒜啊。
  Bù yào zhuāngsuàn a.
  Don't play dumb.
• 汤姆捣碎了大蒜。
  Tāngmǔ dǎosuì le dàsuàn.
  Tom crushed the garlic.
• 这不是鸡毛蒜皮。
  This isn't a trivial matter.
• 蒜头发芽了怎幺办?
  What should one do with germinating garlic bulbs?
• 他给了我十二瓣大蒜。
  Tā gěi le wǒ shí'èr bàn dàsuàn.
  He gave me 12 cloves of garlic.

Words starting with 蒜

• 蒜味suàn wèigarlic odor
• 蒜泥suàn níthoroughly mashed or minced garlic; garlic paste
• 蒜瓣suàn bàngarlic clove
• 蒜米suàn mǐminced garlic; peeled garlic clove
• 蒜苗suàn miáogarlic shoot; garlic sprouts
• 蒜头suàn tóugarlic bulb
• 蒜蓉suàn róngthoroughly mashed or minced garlic; garlic paste
• 蒜茸钳suàn róng qiángarlic press
• 蒜糜suàn mí(dialect) garlic paste
• 蒜薹suàn táigarlic shoots (cookery)
• 蒜苔suàn táivariant of 蒜薹
• 蒜茸suàn róngvariant of 蒜蓉

Words containing 蒜

• 大蒜dà suàngarlic
• 鸡毛蒜皮jī máo suàn pílit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom); fig. trivial (matter)
• 拌蒜bàn suànto stagger (walk unsteadily)
• 石蒜shí suànred spider lily (Lycoris radiata)
• 装蒜zhuāng suànto act stupid; to play dumb; to pretend to not know
• 青蒜qīng suàngarlic shoots and leaves
• 压蒜器yā suàn qìgarlic press
• 多瓣蒜duō bàn suànChinese elephant garlic
• 独子蒜dú zǐ suànsolo garlic; single-clove garlic
• 独头蒜dú tóu suànsolo garlic; single-clove garlic
• 装洋蒜zhuāng yáng suànto feign ignorance
• 香蒜酱xiāng suàn jiànggarlic sauce; pesto
• 磕头如捣蒜kè tóu rú dǎo suànlit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom); fig. to pound the ground with one's head

Characters that look like 蒜

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

• 熊xióngbear; (colloquial) to scold; to rebuke; (colloquial) weak; incapable
• 蒋Jiǎngsurname Jiang; Chiang Kai-shek 蒋介石
• 雁yànwild goose
• 琚jūornamental gems for belt
• 箍gūhoop; to bind with hoops
• 蒟jǔbetel

Sounds the same

Read suàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 算to calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid…
• 筭to regard as; to figure
• 祘variant of 算