荚 jiá

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Number of strokes

Traditional form

莢 jiá

Contains the radical

艹 cǎo

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

Learning hint

plant

Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

⿱艹夹

Semantic compound

艹 cǎo

Phonetic compound

夹 jiā

Explanation

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

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他 tā 开始 kāishǐ 把 bǎ 豌豆 wān dòu 荚 jiá 倒 dǎo 进 jìn 锅 guō 中 Zhōng .

He started tipping the pea pods into a pan.

有 yǒu 毒菌株 zhū 具有 jù yǒu 多糖 duō táng 荚 jiá 膜 mó 它 tā 在 zài 琼脂 qióng zhī 培养基 péi yǎng jī 上 shǎng 形成 xíngchéng 光滑 guānghuá 的 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 属 shǔ 植物 zhíwù 、干枯 gān kū 的 de 马利 Mǎ lì 筋 jīn 属植物的茎 jīng 荚 jiá 和 hé 其他 qítā 野草 yě cǎo ,将 jiāng 它们 tā men 着色 zhuó sè , 然后 ránhòu 再 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 的 de 荚 jiá 沿 yán 茎 jīng 分布 fēnbù 着 zhāo ,茎 jīng 终止 zhōngzhǐ 于 Yú 一 yī 簇 cù 较 jiào 密 Mì 的荚.

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

Explore 4 words and sayings that include the Chinese character 荚 jiá in their composition.

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Simplified	Meaning	Traditional
荚 jiá	pod (botany)	莢 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