Dictionary › 蒿

蒿

hāo

Character

What 蒿 means

1. celery wormwood (Artemisia carvifolia)
2. to give off
3. to weed

Words containing 蒿

• 艾蒿ài hāomugwort (Artemisia)
• 蛇蒿shé hāotarragon
• 页蒿yè hāocaraway
• 龙蒿lóng hāotarragon
• 菌陈蒿jūn chén hāotarragon
• 青蒿素qīng hāo sùArteannuin (anti-malaria chemical); Artemisinin; Qinghaosu
• 伤心蒿目shāng xīn hāo mùto grieve; broken-hearted
• 茼蒿tóng hāocrown daisy; garland chrysanthemum (Glebionis coronaria)
• 矮脚苦蒿ǎi jiǎo kǔ hāosee 熊胆草

Characters built on 高

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

• 搞gǎoto do; to make; to go in for
• 稿gǎomanuscript; draft; stalk of grain
• 膏gāoointment; paste
• 犒kàoto reward or comfort with presents of food, drink etc
• 镐gǎoa pick
• 缟gǎoplain white silk
• 篙gāopole for punting boats
• 槁gǎodried up (wood); dead tree

Characters that look like 蒿

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

• 慕mùto admire
• 蒸zhēngto evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old)
• 葛gékudzu (Pueraria lobata); hemp cloth
• 葱cōngscallion; green onion
• 蓖bìthe castor-oil plant
• 嵩sōng(literary) (of mountains) lofty

Sounds the same

Read hāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 薅to weed; to grip or clutch
• 嚆sound; noise