Chinese Character Wiki

瓠

hù

bottle gourd

Components
夸 sound component

夸  Sound component

kuā

  

see 夸克[kuā​kè]

瓜 meaning component

瓜  Meaning component

guā

  

melon

gourd

Evolution

瓠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瓠 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
瓠 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
瓠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

瓠  

hù

bottle gourd; calabash; pot; gourd

Most common words with 瓠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

瓠

gourd

瓠瓜

bottle gourd

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤa-s

huH

hù

bottle-gourd, melon


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5820th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+74E0

Shuowen

“瓠，匏也。从瓜，夸聲。”


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