藻 — Chinese character
藻
zǎo
splendid, magnificent; algae
- Pinyin
- zǎo
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 19
- Components
- 艹 澡
- Formation
- pictophonetic — grass; meaning component 艹; sound component 澡
- Japanese
- 藻 as a kanji
Common words with 藻
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 藻类 (藻類) | zǎo lèi | algae |
| 海藻 | hǎi zǎo | seaweed; marine alga |
| 词藻 (詞藻) | cí zǎo | rhetoric; flowery language |
| 辞藻 (辭藻) | cí zǎo | rhetoric |
| 硅藻 | guī zǎo | diatom (single-celled phytoplankton) |
| 绿藻 (綠藻) | lǜ zǎo | green algae; chlorella (dietary supplement) |
| 蓝藻 (藍藻) | lán zǎo | cyanobacterium (blue-green alga) |
| 螺旋藻 | luó xuán zǎo | spiral algae; spirulina (dietary supplement) |
| 矽藻 | xī zǎo | diatom |
| 蓝绿藻 (藍綠藻) | lán lǜ zǎo | Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) |
| 金鱼藻 (金魚藻) | jīn yú zǎo | hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum) |
| 单胞藻 (單胞藻) | dān bāo zǎo | single-celled algae |
English words written with 藻
藻 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 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.