Keyword
tile
- pottery
- earthenware
- Frequency
- #1380
- Strokes
- 4
Readings
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Mnemonic
An interlocking roof tile
Stroke order
Used in characters
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Used in vocabulary
瓦
roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特 (wǎtè)
瓦解
to collapse; to disintegrate; to crumble; to disrupt; to break up
日内瓦
Geneva, Switzerland
瓦斯
gas (loanword)
千瓦
kilowatt
萨尔瓦多
El Salvador
瓦特
(loanword) watt
哈瓦那
Havana, capital of Cuba
科特迪瓦
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa
摩尔多瓦
Moldova
博茨瓦纳
Botswana
瓦西里
(name) Vasily; Vasiliy
图瓦
Tuva, a republic in south-central Siberia, Russia
青瓦台
the Blue House (or Cheong Wa Dae), formerly the residence of the president of South Korea in Seoul (1948–2022), now a public park
瓦砾
rubble; debris
苏瓦
Suva, capital of Fiji
兆瓦
megawatt
琉璃瓦
glazed roof tile
砖瓦
tiles and bricks
卡萨诺瓦
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
科尔多瓦
Córdoba, Spain
瓦尔德
Vardø (city in Finnmark, Norway)
施瓦辛格
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947–), Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor and politician, governor of California (2003–2011)
瓦利
Váli (son of Odin)