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架

jià

HSK 5 Character

What 架 means

1. to support
2. frame
3. rack
4. framework
5. classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc

Example sentences

• 别摆架子。
  Don't give yourself airs.
• 车要散架了。
  Chē yào sǎnjià le.
  This car is going to break down.
• 他们吵架了。
  They quarreled.
• 我好想打架。
  I mean to fight hard.
• 她们在干架。
  They're fighting.
• 他有一架单车。
  Tā yǒu yī jià dānchē.
  He has a bicycle.

Words starting with 架

• 架子jià zishelf; frame; stand
• 架构jià gòuto construct; to build; structure; framework; architecture
• 架势jià shiattitude; position (on an issue etc)
• 架设jià shèto construct; to erect
• 架空jià kōngto build (a hut etc) on stilts; to install (power lines etc) overhead; (fig.) unfounded…
• 架次jià cìsortie; flight
• 架走jià zǒuto hustle sb away
• 架不住jià bu zhù(colloquial) unable to withstand; cannot bear; can't stand it
• 架子车jià zi chētwo-wheeled handcart
• 架空索道jià kōng suǒ dàoaerial ropeway; cable car
• 架构师jià gòu shī(computing) architect
• 架空历史jià kōng lì shǐalternate history; counterfactual history (genre of fiction)
• 架子鼓jià zi gǔdrum kit
• 架桥jià qiáoto bridge; to put up a bridge
• 架上绘画jià shàng huì huàeasel painting
• 架子猪jià zi zhūfeeder pig
• 架拐jià guǎito use a crutch
• 架二郎腿jià èr láng tuǐto stick one leg over the other (when sitting)
• 架式jià shivariant of 架势

Words containing 架

• 吵架chǎo jiàto quarrel; to have a row; quarrel
• 书架shū jiàbookshelf
• 绑架bǎng jiàto kidnap; to abduct; to hijack
• 打架dǎ jiàto fight; to scuffle; to come to blows
• 框架kuàng jià(construction) frame; (fig.) framework
• 十字架shí zì jiàcross; crucifix; yoke one has to endure
• 货架huò jiàshelf for goods; shop shelf
• 骨架gǔ jiàframework; skeleton
• 上架shàng jiàto put goods on shelves; (of a product) to be available for sale
• 衣架yī jiàclothes hanger; clothes rack
• 担架dān jiàstretcher; litter; bier
• 支架zhī jiàtrestle; support; stand; frame; (medicine) stent; to prop up
• 高架gāo jiàoverhead; elevated (walkway, highway etc); elevated road
• 招架zhāo jiàto resist; to ward off; to hold one's own
• 构架gòu jiàstructure
• 脚手架jiǎo shǒu jiàscaffolding
• 高架桥gāo jià qiáohigh trestle bridge; viaduct; flyover
• 三脚架sān jiǎo jiàtripod; derrick crane
• 神农架Shén nóng jiàShennongjialin, directly administered forestry reserve in east Hubei
• 散架sǎn jiàto fall apart; exhaustion
• 行李架xíng li jiàluggage rack
• 劝架quàn jiàto mediate in a quarrel; to intervene in a dispute and try to calm things down
• 下架xià jiàto take down from the shelves (e.g. a contaminated product)
• 干架gàn jià(dialect) to come to blows; to have a row

Characters built on 加

These share the phonetic component 加 (jiā), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 驾jiàto harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive
• 嘉jiāexcellent; auspicious; to praise
• 迦jiā(phonetic sound for Buddhist terms)
• 枷jiācangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
• 珈jiāgamma; jewelry
• 痂jiāscab
• 袈jiāused in 袈裟
• 笳jiāwhistle made of reed

Characters that look like 架

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 乘chéngto ride; to mount; to make use of
• 荣róngglory; honor; thriving
• 舰jiànwarship
• 契qìto carve; carved words; to agree
• 柴cháifirewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)
• 圃pǔgarden; orchard

Sounds the same

Read jià, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 价price; value; (chemistry) valence
• 驾to harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive
• 嫁(of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc)
• 稼to sow grain; (farm) crop
• 假vacation
• 幏cloth (archaic), esp. of southern ethnic groups