芡 — Chinese character
芡
qiàn
Gorgon plant, fox nut
- Pinyin
- qiàn
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 艹 欠
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 欠
Common words with 芡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 芡实 (芡實) | qiàn shí | Gorgon fruit; Semen euryales (botany) |
| 勾芡 | gōu qiàn | to thicken with cornstarch |
| 芡粉 | qiàn fěn | cornstarch; powder made from Gorgon fruit |
| 粉芡 | fěn qiàn | cooking starch; pasty mixture of starch and water |
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.