葛 — Chinese character
葛
gé
an edible bean; vine; surname
- Pinyin
- gé
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 艹 曷
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 曷
- Japanese
- 葛 as a kanji
Common words with 葛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 纠葛 (糾葛) | jiū gé | entanglement; dispute |
| 瓜葛 | guā gé | connection; association |
| 杯葛 | bēi gé | (dialect) (loanword) to boycott |
| 葛根 | gé gēn | tuber of the kudzu vine (Pueraria lobata), used in Chinese medicine |
| 葛藤 | gé téng | tangle of vines; fig. complications |
| 葛布 | gé bù | hemp cloth |
| 葛粉 | gé fěn | starch of pueraria root; arrowroot flour |
| 葛巾 | gé jīn | hemp headcloth |
| 葛缕子 (葛縷子) | gě lǚ zi | caraway; Persian cumin (Carum carvi) |
English words written with 葛
葛 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1 · Mencius 8 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.