渠
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(artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2]); (literary) big; great; (dialect) he; she; him; her; (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,090 U+6E20
How 渠 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A ditch 洰 made of wood 木; 洰 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
canal · Heisig RSH #2683
水 water + giant + 木 tree
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 渠 as their sound component
These characters all use 渠 (qú) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 渠 sound component | qú | ditch, gutter; canal, channel |
| 磲 | qú | giant clam, Tridacna gigas |
| 蕖 | qú | lotus |
Words containing 渠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尾水渠道 | wěi shuǐ qú dào | outflow channel |
| 五家渠市 | Wǔ jiā qú shì | Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomo… |
| 水到渠成 | shuǐ dào qú chéng | lit. where water flows, a canal is formed (idiom); fig. when conditions are right, success… |
| 石渠县 | Shí qú Xiàn | Sêrxü, a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4… |
| 五家渠 | Wǔ jiā qú | Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomo… |
| 排水渠 | pái shuǐ qú | drainage |
| 渠县 | Qú Xiàn | Qu County or Quxian, a county in Dazhou City 達州市|达州市[Da2 zhou1 Shi4], Sichuan |
| 水渠 | shuǐ qú | canal |
| 渠道 | qú dào | irrigation ditch; (fig.) channel; avenue |
| 石渠 | Shí qú | Sêrxü county (Tibetan: ser shul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Si… |
| 石渠 | shí qú | stone channel (e.g. drain) |
| 明渠 | míng qú | (open, uncovered) water channel; canal |
| 河渠 | hé qú | rivers and canals; waterway |
| 石渠阁议 | Shí qú gé yì | cabinet meeting in 51 BC that established the five classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing… |
| 干渠 | gàn qú | trunk canal |
| 灵渠 | Líng qú | Lingqu, canal in Xing'an county 興安|兴安[Xing1 an1], Guangxi, built in 214 BC to link the Yan… |
| 石渠阁 | Shí qú gé | cabinet meeting in 51 BC that established the five classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing… |
| 夏敬渠 | Xià Jìng qú | Xia Jingqu (1705-1787), Qing novelist, author of monumental novel 野叟曝言[Ye3 sou3 Pu4 yan2] … |
| 暗渠 | àn qú | underground water channel; covered ditch; culvert |
| 郑国渠 | Zhèng guó qú | Zhengguo canal, a 150 km long irrigation canal in Shaanxi built in 264 BC |