jiē

stalks of millet

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

吉 sound component

  Sound component

  

lucky

Definitions

 

jiē

stalks of millet, corn; grain stalks left after threshing

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jiē

variant of [jiē]

Most common words with 秸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

秸秆

straw

grain stalks left after threshing

麦秸

straw from barley or wheat

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤri[t]

keat

jiē

stalk of grain


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3840th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+79F8


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