颗
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classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
14 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,365 U+9897
How 颗 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
果 (semantic, “grain”) + 页 (phonetic, yè)
How to remember it
granule · Heisig RSH #923
果 fruit + head
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 页
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 页 (yè) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 页 sound component | yè | page, sheet, leaf |
| 烦 | fán | to bother, to trouble, to vex |
Words containing 颗
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤 | yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng | lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom); fig. one bad apple can… |
| 一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 | yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu | see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yi1 li4 lao3 shu3 shi3 huai4 le5 yi1 guo1 zhou1] |
| 颗粒无收 | kē lì wú shōu | not a single grain was reaped (as in a bad harvest year) |
| 细颗粒物 | xì kē lì wù | fine particle (PM 2.5); fine particulate matter (air pollution etc) |
| 颗粒物 | kē lì wù | particulate matter (PM) |
| 颗粒归仓 | kē lì guī cāng | to gather all the harvested grain into the granary; to harvest every single grain |
| 分泌颗粒 | fēn mì kē lì | secretory granule |
| 颗粒 | kē lì | kernel; granule; granulated (sugar, chemical product) |