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jiá

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jiá Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jiá | jia2
English translation
seed-pod

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About jiá

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

jiá

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

Learning hint

plant

Etymology of jiá

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

艹夹

Semantic compound

cǎo

Phonetic compound

jiā

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. cǎo represents the meaning and jiā represents the sound. Simplified form of jiá .

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Example sentences using jiá

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开始 kāishǐ 豌豆 wān dòu jiá dǎo jìn guō Zhōng .

He started tipping the pea pods into a pan.

yǒu 毒菌 zhū 具有 jù yǒu 多糖 duō táng jiá zài 琼脂 qióng zhī 培养基 péi yǎng jī shǎng 形成 xíngchéng 光滑 guānghuá de 菌落 jūn luò .

The virulent strains had a polysaccharide capsule and formed smooth colonies on agar medium.

有人 yǒu rén 喜欢 xǐhuan 收集 shōu jí 香蒲 xiāng pú shǔ 植物 zhíwù 干枯 gān kū de 马利 Mǎ lì jīn 属植物的 jīng jiá 其他 qítā 野草 yě cǎo , jiāng 它们 tā men 着色 zhuó sè , 然后 ránhòu zài 做成装饰品 zhuāng shì pǐn .

Cattails, dried milkweed pods, and other weeds may be gathered and painted for decorations.

成熟 chéngshú de jiá 沿 yán jīng 分布 fēnbù zhāo , jīng 终止 zhōngzhǐ jiào 的荚.

At maturity, pods distributed along the stem which terminates in a rather dense cluster of pods.

Words with jiá

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
jiá pod (botany) jiá
豆荚 dòu jiá pod (of legumes)豆莢
荚果 jiá guǒ seed pod莢果
皂荚 zào jiá Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis)皂莢

jiá Decomposition & Compounds

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