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蕨

jué

Character

What 蕨 means

1. Pteridium aquilinum
2. bracken

Example sentences

• 桌上摆放着一瓶被霜冻漂白的蕨类植物和红宝石色的枫叶。
  A vase of frost-bleached ferns and ruby-red maple leaves adorned the table.
• 我们突然向下望去，只见一个杯状的洼地，上面点缀着矮小的橡树和被多年风暴肆虐扭曲变形的蕨类植物。两座高耸狭窄的塔楼耸立在树梢之上。车夫用鞭子指着前方。他说：「巴斯克维尔庄园。」
  Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

Words starting with 蕨

• 蕨菜jué càiedible fern fronds (fiddleheads), esp. bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
• 蕨类jué lèi(botany) fern; bracken; brake

Words containing 蕨

• 凤尾蕨fèng wěi juébrake (fern of genus Pteris); (esp.) spider fern (Pteris multifida)
• 鹿角蕨lù jiǎo juéstaghorn fern (genus Platycerium)

Characters built on 厥

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

• 獗juéused in 猖獗
• 撅juēto protrude; to stick out; to pout (also written 噘)
• 蹶juéto stumble; to trample; to kick (of horse)
• 橛juéa peg; low post
• 噘juēto pout; (dialect) to scold
• 劂juéused in 剞劂
• 镢jué(dialect; bound form) mattock; hoe

Characters that look like 蕨

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

• 蔗zhèsugar cane
• 暮mùevening; sunset
• 褒bāoto praise; to commend; to honor
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
• 蔷qiángused in 蔷薇
• 嬴Yíngsurname Ying

Sounds the same

Read jué, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 觉to feel; to find that; thinking
• 决to decide; to determine; to execute (sb)
• 绝to cut short; extinct; to disappear
• 掘to dig
• 倔used in 倔强
• 爵ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle; nobility
• 角role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel
• 脚role (variant of 角
• 诀to bid farewell; tricks of the trade; pithy mnemonic formula…
• 厥to faint; to lose consciousness; his
• 攫to seize; to snatch; to grab
• 崛towering as a peak