苟
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(literary) if indeed; (bound form) careless; negligent; (bound form) temporarily
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,456 U+82DF
How 苟 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 (semantic, “wild grass”) + 句 (phonetic, jù)
How to remember it
careless · Heisig RSH #1581
flower + 句 sentence
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 句
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 句 (jù) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 句 sound component | jù | sentence, clause, phrase, paragraph; stanza |
| 狗 | gǒu | dog |
| 鸲 | qú | mynah; Erithacus species (various) |
| 拘 | jū | to detain, to restrain, to seize |
| 够 | gòu | enough, adequate; to reach, to attain; to pass muster |
| 枸 | gōu | a kind of aspen found in Sichuan |
| 驹 | jū | colt; fleet, swift; surname |
| 朐 | qú | warm |
| 昫 | xù | warm |
| 鼩 | qú | shrew |
| 劬 | qú | diligent; to toil, to endeavor |
| 岣 | gǒu | a hill in Hunan |
| 笱 | gǒu | a basket trap for fish |
Words containing 苟
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一笔不苟 | yī bǐ bù gǒu | lit. not even one stroke is negligent (idiom); fig. to write characters (calligraphy) in w… |
| 一丝不苟 | yī sī bù gǒu | not one thread loose (idiom); strictly according to the rules; meticulous; not one hair ou… |
| 苟富贵，勿相忘 | gǒu fù guì , wù xiāng wàng | don't forget your friends when you become rich |
| 不敢苟同 | bù gǎn gǒu tóng | to beg to differ (idiom) |
| 不苟 | bù gǒu | not lax; not casual; careful; conscientious |
| 苟安 | gǒu ān | see 苟且偷安[gou3 qie3 tou1 an1] |
| 苟合 | gǒu hé | illicit sexual relations |
| 苟同 | gǒu tóng | to agree blindly |
| 未敢苟同 | wèi gǎn gǒu tóng | can't agree with |
| 苟活 | gǒu huó | to live without dignity; to barely sustain oneself |
| 苟且偷生 | gǒu qiě tōu shēng | to drift and live without purpose (idiom); to drag out an ignoble existence |
| 苟且偷安 | gǒu qiě tōu ān | seeking only ease and comfort (idiom); making no attempt to improve oneself; taking things… |
| 苟取 | gǒu qǔ | (literary) to extort; to take as bribe |
| 狗苟蝇营 | gǒu gǒu yíng yíng | see 蠅營狗苟|蝇营狗苟[ying2 ying2 gou3 gou3] |
| 蝇营狗苟 | yíng yíng gǒu gǒu | (lit.) to swarm like flies around rotten food and drag out an ignoble existence like a dog… |
| 苟存 | gǒu cún | to drift through life |
| 苟延残喘 | gǒu yán cán chuǎn | (idiom) to struggle on whilst at death's door |
| 苟且 | gǒu qiě | perfunctory; careless; drifting along; resigned to one's fate; improper (relations); illic… |