芡 qiàn plant allied to the waterlily Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 芡 qiàn gorgon euryale (bound form) gorgon plant; an aquatic herb with large round leaves and purple flowers whose seeds are edible and used in medicine starch thickening (bound form) thick liquid made of starch and water, used in cooking to thicken sauces or soups Cross-References See 芡实 qiànshí鸡头 jītóu勾芡 gōuqiàn芡粉 qiànfěn Frequency Character Written text 5,200th most common 0.780 per million Word Written text 1.47 per million Details Strokes 7 Unicode U+82A1 Sources Frequency data MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)
芡 qiàn gorgon euryale (bound form) gorgon plant; an aquatic herb with large round leaves and purple flowers whose seeds are edible and used in medicine starch thickening (bound form) thick liquid made of starch and water, used in cooking to thicken sauces or soups
