què / sháo
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 芍陂) Quebei, an ancient reservoir in Anhui province

Examples

Quèbēi shì Chūnqiū shíqī zhùmíng de shuǐlì gōngchéng.
Quebei was a famous water-conservancy project of the Spring and Autumn period.

Tips

usage
This reading què exists only in the place name 芍陂, an ancient irrigation reservoir in Anhui built in the Spring and Autumn period. Outside this single name the character is read sháo (peony).

Components

radical
cǎo
grass; plant (top radical)
Grass radical on top, the cap-form of . It marks this as a plant name — here a flowering herb. Same family as flower, tea, medicinal herb.
phonetic
sháo
spoon; ladle
Bottom supplies the sound sháo directly — a ladle shape lending only its reading, not its meaning, to this flower name.

Stroke Order

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