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蔻

kòu

Character

What 蔻 means

1. used in {豆蔻|dòu kòu}

Words starting with 蔻

• 蔻丹kòu dānnail polish (loanword, from "Cutex")
• 蔻蔻kòu kòu(loanword) cocoa

Words containing 蔻

• 兰蔻Lán kòuLancôme, French cosmetics brand
• 豆蔻dòu kòucardamom (Elettaria cardamomum); fig. a girl's teenage years; maidenhood
• 小豆蔻xiǎo dòu kòuIndian cardamom (Amomum cardamomum)
• 白豆蔻bái dòu kòucardamom (Elettaria cardamomum)
• 肉豆蔻ròu dòu kòunutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt); mace; Myristicaceae…
• 肉豆蔻科ròu dòu kòu kēMyristicaceae (family of plants including nutmeg)
• 豆蔻年华dòu kòu nián huá(idiom) (of a girl) 13 or 14 years old; early teens; adolescence

Characters that look like 蔻

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

• 蓝lánblue; indigo plant
• 蕴yùnto accumulate; to hold in store; to contain
• 蓉róngpaste made by mashing beans or seeds etc; used in 芙蓉
• 霆tíngclap of thunder
• 箍gūhoop; to bind with hoops
• 蓓bèiused in 蓓蕾

Sounds the same

Read kòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 扣to fasten; to button; button
• 寇to invade; to plunder; bandit
• 叩to knock; to kowtow
• 簆healds of a loom
• 筘(a measure of width of cloth)
• 怐used in 怐愗
• 鷇fledglings
• 佝used in 佝瞀