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藻

zǎo

Character

What 藻 means

1. aquatic grasses
2. elegant

Example sentences

• 马祖有很特别的生态观光奇景「蓝眼泪」，在每年的四月到六月的晚上可以看到海面有夜光藻，美丽而稀少。
  Matsu is home to a breathtaking ecological wonder known as "Blue Tears." From April through June, the sea comes alive at night with a beautiful and rare bioluminescent glow caused by Noctiluca scintillans.

Words starting with 藻

• 藻华zǎo huáalgal bloom
• 藻类zǎo lèialgae

Words containing 藻

• 海藻hǎi zǎoseaweed; marine alga; kelp
• 甄藻zhēn zǎoto discern talent
• 硅藻guī zǎodiatom (single-celled phytoplankton)
• 绿藻lǜ zǎogreen algae; chlorella (dietary supplement)
• 胞藻bāo zǎoalgae
• 蓝藻lán zǎocyanobacterium (blue-green alga)
• 词藻cí zǎorhetoric; flowery language
• 辞藻cí zǎorhetoric
• 单胞藻dān bāo zǎosingle-celled algae
• 眼虫藻yǎn chóng zǎoeuglena (biology)
• 硅藻门guī zǎo ménBacillariophyta, phylum of diatom single-celled phytoplankton
• 蓝绿藻lán lǜ zǎoCyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
• 蓝藻门lán zǎo ménCyanobacteria (phylum of blue-green algae)
• 螺旋藻luó xuán zǎospiral algae; spirulina (dietary supplement)
• 金鱼藻jīn yú zǎohornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum)
• 玩弄词藻wán nòng cí zǎoto juggle with words (dishonestly); to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric
• 矽藻xī zǎodiatom

Characters that look like 藻

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

• 瀑pùwaterfall
• 藤téngrattan; cane; vine
• 蘑mómushroom
• 藩fānfence; hedge; (literary) screen; barrier; vassal state
• 瀛yíngocean
• 籁làia sound; a noise; musical pipe with 3 reeds

Sounds the same

Read zǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 早early; morning; Good morning!
• 澡bath
• 枣(bound form) jujube; Chinese date (Zizyphus jujuba)
• 蚤flea
• 璪pendant of pearls on coronet
• 薻old variant of 藻