jiè, gài
mustard plant
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 介 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 芥
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
mustard | ||
Chinese broccoli | ||
also pr. [gàicài] | ||
barrier | ||
Chinese broccoli |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤr[e][t]-s | keajH | jiè | mustard plant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.4988% of movies
2808th most common character in movies
4002nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+82A5 |
Shuowen | “芥，菜也。从艸，介聲。” |
Sources
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