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蚝

háo

Character Traditional 蠔

What 蚝 means

1. oyster

Example sentences

• 叫个清蒸鲈鱼好呢，还是蚝油牛肉好？
  Should we order the steamed perch or the beef with oyster sauce?
• 今天是 2013 年 9 月 4 日。有人说世界语就像西班牙语或义大利语。其实，这些语言就像杏仁牛轧糖或巧克力蛋糕一样甜美。世界语的味道更微妙，就像豆腐、萝卜或蚝油蒸蔬菜的味道。世界语比国际语、西班牙语、义大利语、法语或葡萄牙语更适合中部地区的思维。它确实更适合东方人的思维。
  It is the 4th of September of 2013. Some say that Esperanto is like Spanish or Italian. Actually, these latter languages are sweet like almond nougat or chocolate cake. Esperanto has a more subtle taste like tofu, radish, or steamed vegetables with oyster sauce. Esperanto suits the Centralian mind better than does Interlingua, Spanish, Italian, French, or Portuguese. It really is more suitable for an Eastern mind.

Words starting with 蚝

• 蚝油háo yóuoyster sauce
• 蚝菇háo gūoyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)
• 蚝豉háo chǐdried oyster meat

Words containing 蚝

• 生蚝shēng háoraw oyster

Characters built on 毛

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

• 毫háohair; drawing brush; (in the) least
• 耗hàoto waste; to spend; to consume
• 髦máobang (hair); fashionable; mane
• 牦máoyak (Bos grunniens)
• 酕máoused in 酕醄
• 耄màoextremely aged (in one's 80s or 90s); octogenarian; nonagenarian
• 旄máobanner decorated with animal's tail

Characters that look like 蚝

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

• 蛇shésnake; serpent
• 蚂māused in 蚂螂
• 蛎lìoyster
• 辄zhéthen; at once; always
• 祗zhīrespectful (ly)
• 酕máoused in 酕醄

Sounds the same

Read háo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 豪grand; heroic
• 毫hair; drawing brush; (in the) least
• 嚎howl; bawl
• 濠trench
• 壕moat; (military) trench
• 号(bound form) to wail; to howl
• 嗥to howl (like a wolf)
• 諕to intimidate
• 譹to shout; to roar; to terrify