suàn

garlic

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

herb

祘 sound component

  Sound component

suàn

  

to calculate

Evolution

蒜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蒜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

suàn

garlic; CL:|[tóu],[bàn]

Most common words with 蒜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

garlic

大蒜

garlic

装蒜

to act stupid

鸡毛蒜皮

kitchen trash

蒜苗

garlic shoot

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤor-s

swanH

suàn

garlic


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.7001% of movies

2652nd most common character in movies

3444th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+849C

Shuowen

“蒜,葷菜。从艸,祘聲。”


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