white amaranth, purple eggplant (idiom); common foodstuff, unpretentious lifestyle
trad. 白莧紫茄
Also written 白莧紫茄【bái xiàn zǐ qié】
Characters in this word
4白
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surname Bai, Bai ethnic group
- Pinyin
- Bái
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1993 of 2500
苋
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amaranth (genus Amaranthus), Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor), Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)
- Pinyin
- xiàn
- Traditional
- 莧
- Strokes
- 7
紫
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purple, violet
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 18400 of 2500
茄
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phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夾|夹[jia2] is more common
- Pinyin
- jiā
- Strokes
- 8