葛 (gé)
surname Ge
How 葛 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 葛
- Simplified
- 葛 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 曰 say
- 勹 wrap
- 人 human
- ㇗ N/A
葛 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- gě
- surname Ge
- gé
- kudzu (Pueraria lobata); hemp cloth
Common words using 葛
- 瓜葛 guāgé
- intertwined (as melon and vine plants); interconnected; association (of two things)
- 糾葛 jiūgé
- entanglement; dispute
- 葛優 gěyōu
- Ge You (Chinese actor)
- 杯葛 bēigě
- to boycott
- 葛根 gégēn
- tuber of the kudzu vine (Pueraria lobata) used in Chinese medicine
- 葛洲壩 gézhōubà
- name of a place, Gezhouba Dam on the Changjiang River, in Sichuan
- 葛粉 géfěn
- starch of pueraria root; arrowroot flour
- 長葛 chánggě
- Changge county level city in Shangqiu 商丘[Shang1 qiu1], Henan
葛 in a sentence
葛先生是我們的新鄰居。
Gě xiānsheng shì wǒmen de xīn línjū.
“Mr. Ge is our new neighbor.”
How common is 葛?
葛 is the 1,916th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96.8% of all running text.
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