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  *瓜* | 瓜* | *瓜
melon; gourd; squash / (slang) a piece of gossip
HSK 4
melon seed / seeds of pumpkin, watermelon or sunflower etc, roasted and flavored, consumed as a snack
HSK 7-9
melon farmer
fruit (plural sense) / melons and fruit
(Tw) oriental melon (Cucumis melo Makuwa Group)
bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
Hami melon (a variety of muskmelon) / honeydew melon / cantaloupe
Hami melon (a variety of muskmelon) / honeydew melon / cantaloupe / also written 哈密瓜
oriental melon (Cucumis melo Makuwa Group) / cantaloupe; muskmelon (Cucumis melo)
lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap. / One must live with the consequences of one's actions. / You've made your bed, now must lie on it.
wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida) / white gourd / white hairy melon / Chinese squash
lit. to follow the vine to get to the melon / to track sth following clues
snake melon / loofah
club (ancient stick-like weapon with a melon-shaped enlargement at the tip) / (flower) bud
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently / to know sth inside out / to know sth by heart
lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瓞* | 瓞* | *瓞
(literary) small melon
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
honeydew melon
snake melon
lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom) / fig. don't do anything that might arouse suspicion / innocent acts may be misconstrued
the umbilicus of a melon
lit. (of a melon vine) laden with melons of all sizes (idiom) / fig. (of descendants) to thrive and prosper for generations


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