guā melon; gourd (a vine with fruit hanging from it)

Forms

• 瓜 free
• 瓜 right — 作右偏旁时整体收窄，撇捺略收

Characters that use it as a component

孤弧狐

Characters filed under it as a radical

Kangxi radical no.97 · 5strokes — The 214 Kangxi radicals

Filed under it in a dictionary. That is a lookup convention — it does not mean it is the only part the character is built from.

瓜