瓜

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/瓜

Glyph origin
- a pictograph of a melon suspended by its vines.

Etymology 1
Etymology zh.

Possibly a borrowing from.

Definitions

 * 1) melon; gourd; squash
 * 2)  storyful news
 * 3)  fellow; dude
 * 1)  storyful news
 * 2)  fellow; dude
 * 1)  fellow; dude
 * 1)  fellow; dude
 * 1)  fellow; dude

Definitions

 * 1)  to die

Kanji

 * 1) gourd, squash, melon

Etymology
From, from. Found in the , compiled some time after 759.

Possibly derived as the of classical verb, modern form.

Possibly cognate with 🇨🇬; compare other terms in the Japonic family, such as 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) gourd, squash, melon

Idioms

 * : “an eggplant won't grow on a gourd vine” → like father, like son, or the apple does not fall far from the tree
 * , : “like a gourd split in two” → like two peas in a pod
 * : “two gourds” → like two peas in a pod
 * : “like a gourd that hasn't even been split in two” → like two peas in a pod, more emphatically

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) gourd

Hanja

 * 1) cucumber

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬, possibly cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) melon
 * 2) gourd

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬, possibly cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) melon
 * 2) gourd

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cucumber, gourd