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薯

shǔ

Character

What 薯 means

1. potato
2. yam

Other readings

薯 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• shǔvariant of {薯|shǔ}

Example sentences

• 你吃薯片。
  Nǐ chī shǔpiàn.
  You eat potato chips.
• 我喜欢薯条。
  I love chips.
• 我在吃薯条。
  I'm eating french fries.
• 我吃了炸薯条。
  Wǒ chī le zháshǔtiáo.
  I ate french fries.
• 别吃我的薯条。
  Don't eat my french fries.
• 汤姆想做炸薯条。
  Tāngmǔ xiǎng zuò zháshǔtiáo.
  Tom was making French fries.

Words starting with 薯

• 薯条shǔ tiáofrench fries; french fried potatoes; chips
• 薯片shǔ piànfried potato chips
• 薯泥shǔ nímashed potato
• 薯饼shǔ bǐnghash browns; croquette
• 薯蓉shǔ róngmashed potatoes
• 薯蓣shǔ yùChinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya)

Words containing 薯

• 红薯hóng shǔsweet potato
• 马铃薯mǎ líng shǔpotato
• 番薯fān shǔ(dialect) sweet potato; yam
• 白薯bái shǔsweet potato
• 木薯mù shǔcassava, a tropical tuber plant
• 甘薯gān shǔsweet potato; Ipomoea batatas
• 种薯zhǒng shǔseed tuber
• 豆薯dòu shǔyam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus), a vine with sweet edible root
• 鱼薯yú shǔfish and chips (abbr. for 炸鱼薯条
• 炸薯条zhá shǔ tiáofrench fries
• 炸薯片zhá shǔ piànpotato chip
• 炸薯球zhà shǔ qiútater tot
• 豆薯属dòu shǔ shǔyam bean; Pachyrhizus genus
• 马铃薯泥mǎ líng shǔ nímashed potato
• 木薯淀粉mù shǔ diàn fěntapioca
• 参薯shēn shǔDioscorea alata (Kinampay or aromatic purple yam, a sweet root crop)
• 当官不为民做主不如回家卖红薯dāng guān bù wèi mín zuò zhǔ bù rú huí jiā mài hóng shǔif an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet…
• 麻薯má shǔvariant of 麻糬

Characters built on 署

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

• 曙shǔ(bound form) daybreak; dawn; Taiwan pr. shù
• 糬shǔused in 麻糬

Characters that look like 薯

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

• 蕾lěibud
• 簧huángreed (of a music instrument); spring; coil
• 霉méimold; mildew; to become moldy
• 襄xiāng(literary) to assist
• 蕃fánluxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce
• 篓lǒubasket

Sounds the same

Read shǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 暑heat; hot weather; summer heat
• 属category; genus (taxonomy); family members
• 鼠(bound form) rat; mouse
• 署office; bureau; (Taiwan pr. shù) to sign
• 蜀short name for Sichuan 四川; one of the Three Kingdoms 三国
• 数to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list
• 黍broomcorn millet; glutinous millet
• 曙(bound form) daybreak; dawn; Taiwan pr. shù
• 糬used in 麻糬
• 癙illness caused by worry
• 钃metal
• 鼡variant of 鼠