qiàn

plant allied to the waterlily

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

欠 sound component

  Sound component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

Evolution

芡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qiàn

plant allied to the waterlily; Gorgon plant; fox nut (Gorgon euryale or Euryale ferox); makhana (Hindi)

Most common words with 芡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Gorgon plant

勾芡

to thicken with cornstarch

芡粉

cornstarch

粉芡

cooking starch

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5200th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+82A1

Shuowen

“芡,雞頭也。从艸,欠聲。”


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