蕊

ruǐ
noun #19,912

Measure Word

一根花蕊 gēn

Meanings

  1. 1 stamen
  2. 2 pistil
  3. 3 the reproductive part of a flower

Examples

HSK 7-9
Mìfēng zài huā ruǐ jiān cǎi mì.
Bees collect nectar among the stamens.
HSK 7-9
Xióng ruǐ hé cí ruǐ shì huā de zhòngyào zǔchéng bùfen.
The stamen and pistil are important parts of a flower.

Tips

memory
Think of 蕊 as the 'heart' of the flower - the character 心 (heart) appears three times in its lower half, suggesting multiple seeds or reproductive parts clustered together.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
Top grass radical, the three-stroke compressed form of 艸. Indexes 蕊 in the botanical family alongside 花 flower, 草 grass, 苗 sprout. Carries the meaning: a 蕊 is the stamen or pistil of a flower, the reproductive cluster at the center - purely a plant part, hence the grass radical.
phonetic
惢 ruǐ
tripled-heart
Bottom 惢 - three 心 hearts clustered into a triangle. Supplies the sound directly - ruǐ to ruǐ, identical - and adds semantic flavour through the clustered, multi-petalled imagery of three hearts arranged like the central whorl of a flower. The triple-heart picture mirrors the stamen cluster at a blossom's core.

Stroke Order

蕊 ruǐ