蒜 — Chinese character
蒜
suàn
garlic
- Pinyin
- suàn
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 艹 祘
- Formation
- pictophonetic — herb; meaning component 艹; sound component 祘
- Japanese
- 蒜 as a kanji
Common words with 蒜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大蒜 | dà suàn | garlic; measure word: 瓣 (bàn), 头 (tóu) |
| 鸡毛蒜皮 (雞毛蒜皮) | jī máo suàn pí | lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom); fig. trivial (matter) |
| 蒜头 (蒜頭) | suàn tóu | garlic bulb |
| 装蒜 (裝蒜) | zhuāng suàn | to act stupid; to play dumb |
| 蒜泥 | suàn ní | thoroughly mashed or minced garlic; garlic paste |
| 蒜苗 | suàn miáo | garlic shoot; garlic sprouts |
| 蒜苔 | suàn tái | variant of 蒜薹 (suàn tái) |
| 石蒜 | shí suàn | red spider lily (Lycoris radiata) |
| 蒜蓉 | suàn róng | thoroughly mashed or minced garlic; garlic paste |
| 蒜瓣 | suàn bàn | garlic clove |
| 青蒜 | qīng suàn | garlic shoots and leaves |
| 蒜味 | suàn wèi | garlic odor |
English words written with 蒜
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.