葛

Gě

Meanings

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Gě

1.surname Ge

gé

1.kudzu (Pueraria lobata)
2.hemp cloth

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Wiktionary

1.kudzu (Pueraria lobata)
2.poplin; hemp cloth
3.State of Ge (a small state in modern Henan province during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties)
4.a surname
5.this

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kaːd): semantic 艹 + phonetic 曷 (OC *ɡaːd).

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Stroke order

Components

葛卄曷

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Example sentences

格雷厄姆葛林是我最喜歡的作家之一。
Graham Greene is a favorite author of mine.

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Synonyms

此斯是之茲夫爾這呢依該果阿箇里蓋個改底介只界伊者嚽迄好只蜀當亞搿

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Related words

杯葛 (dialect) (loanword) to boycott 诸葛 two-character surname Zhuge 瓜葛 connection 葛摩 Comoros (Tw)葛藤 tangle of vines 葛巾 hemp headcloth 葛布 hemp cloth 葛根 tuber of the kudzu vine (Pueraria lobata), used in Chinese medicine 葛粉 starch of pueraria root 纠葛 entanglement 葛洪 Ge Hong (283–363), Jin dynasty Daoist and alchemist, author of 抱朴子[Bào pǔ zǐ]葛优 Ge You (1957-), Chinese actor