涡 (guō): name of a river, eddy, whirlpool
涡 (guō) is a Chinese character meaning “name of a river.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (structural) and 呙 (structural). It ranks #2607 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 涡 a mouth 呙 made of water 氵. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- name of a river
- eddy
- whirlpool
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA mouth 呙 made of water 氵
Decomposition: ⿰氵呙 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 漩涡 | xuán wō | whirlpool |
| 涡轮 | wō lún | turbine |
| 旋涡 | xuán wō | spiral |
| 涡旋 | wō xuán | eddy |
| 涡轮喷气发动机 | wō lún pēn qì fā dòng jī | turbojet |
| 涡轮轴发动机 | wō lún zhóu fā dòng jī | turboshaft |
| 准稳旋涡结构 | zhǔn wěn xuán wō jié gòu | quasi-stationary spiral structure QSSS (astrophysics) |
| 旋涡星系 | xuán wō xīng xì | spiral galaxy |
| 环极涡旋 | huán jí wō xuán | circumpolar vortex |
| 旋涡星云 | xuán wō xīng yún | spiral nebula |
| 笑涡 | xiào wō | variant of 笑窩|笑窝[xiao4 wo1] |
| 涡阳县 | guō yáng xiàn | Guoyang, a county in Bozhou City 亳州市[Bo2 zhou1 Shi4], Anhui |
| 旋涡状 | xuán wō zhuàng | spiral-shaped |
| 酒涡 | jiǔ wō | variant of 酒窩|酒窝[jiu3 wo1] |
| 涡阳 | guō yáng | see 渦陽縣|涡阳县[Guo1 yang2 Xian4] |
涡 appears in 22 compound words: 50 as the first character, 27 as the last, and 23 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 涡 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
这条涡流经三个省份，滋养了沿岸的农田。
zhè tiáo guō liú jīng sān gě shěng fèn , zī yǎng le yán àn de nóng tián .
This eddy flows through three provinces, nourishing the farmland along its banks.
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Character Family
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