Chinese Word of the Day

青蛙
qīng wā

frog

Definitions

Chinese > English
青蛙	qīngwā
1. n. frog
English > Chinese
frog
1. 名词. 青蛙
Components
青	qīng
1. blue-green; blue (of sky, stone etc.); green (of grass, plants, mountain etc.)
2. blue-green-coloured items
3. black (of hair, cloth, silk thread etc.)
4. luxuriant; lush; exuberant
5. young; adolescent
6. east
7. spring
8. green grass
9. ripening crops
10. Short for 青海 (Qinghai Province)
11. usage. The meaning for “blue” and “black” is more commonly used in Classical Chinese, while in modern Chinese, the meaning for “green” is more common. For example,blue comes from indigo; someone performing b
12. usage. In Cantonese the use of 青 to mean “black” is still used in circumstances where to usehak1 ji1 used to describe clothing would be a near-homophone of both beggar and a beggar's garment.
蛙	wā
1. frog
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