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韭

jiǔ

Character

What 韭 means

1. leek

Other readings

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

• jiǔvariant of {韭|jiǔ}

Example sentences

• 他买了一把韭菜。
  Tā mǎi le yī bǎ jiǔcài.
  He bought a handful of chives.

Words starting with 韭

• 韭菜jiǔ càigarlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives…
• 韭黄jiǔ huángyellow chives…
• 韭菜花jiǔ cài huāchive flowers
• 韭菜盒子jiǔ cài hé zichive pocket, savory pan-fried turnover stuffed with garlic chives and other ingredients…

Words containing 韭

• 割韭菜gē jiǔ cài(fig.) (coll.) to fleece a group of people repeatedly…

Characters that look like 韭

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

• 庭tíngmain hall; front courtyard; law court
• 益yìbenefit; profit; advantage
• 扇shànfan; sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth; classifier for doors, windows etc
• 恭gōngrespectful
• 盎àng(literary) ancient earthenware container with a big belly and small mouth…
• 坴lùa clod of earth; land

Sounds the same

Read jiǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 九nine; 9
• 酒wine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits
• 久(of a period of time) long
• 灸moxibustion (TCM)
• 糺army (used during the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties)
• 〩numeral 9 in the Suzhou numeral system 苏州码子
• 㺵black jade (variant of 玖
• 玖black jade; nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 乆old variant of 久
• 乣old variant of 糺