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茎

jīng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 莖 Measure word 条

茎 (jīng) means "stalk; stem". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 茎 means

1. stalk
2. stem

Example sentences

• 你的阴茎很大。
  Your penis is big.
• 你的阴茎很小。
  Your penis is small.
• 汤姆有大的阴茎。
  Tāngmǔ yǒu dà de yīnjīng.
  Tom has a large penis.
• 汤姆有小的阴茎。
  Tāngmǔ yǒu xiǎode yīnjīng.
  Tom has a small penis.
• 你从来吮了阴茎吗？
  Nǐ cónglái shǔn le yīnjīng ma?
  Have you ever sucked a penis?
• 别吸烟。吸烟可能缩短你的阴茎。
  Bié xīyān. xīyān kěnéng suōduǎn nǐ de yīnjīng.
  Don't smoke. Smoking can shorten your penis.

Words starting with 茎

• 茎干jīng gànstem; stalk

Words containing 茎

• 阴茎yīn jīngpenis
• 包茎bāo jīngphimosis (medicine)
• 块茎kuài jīng(botany) a (stem) tuber
• 根茎gēn jīng(botany) rhizome
• 残茎cán jīngstubble (the stems of plants after harvest)
• 玉茎yù jīng(literary) penis
• 球茎qiú jīng(botany) corm
• 羽茎yǔ jīngquill
• 麻茎má jīnghemp straw
• 地下茎dì xià jīng(botany) underground stem
• 根状茎gēn zhuàng jīngrhizome (biol.); root stock
• 阴茎套yīn jīng tàocondom
• 缠绕茎chán rào jīngvine; twining stem
• 矮茎朱砂根ǎi jīng zhū shā gēnshort-stem Ardisia (Ardisia brevicaulis)
• 鳞茎lín jīng(botany) bulb
• 簇茎石竹cù jīng shí zhúboreal carnation or northern pink; Dianthus repens (botany)
• 匍匐茎pú fú jīng(botany) stolon

Characters built on 工

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

• 经jīngclassics; sacred book; scripture
• 轻qīnglight; easy; gentle
• 径jìngfootpath; path; track; (fig.) a way; a means; directly; straight; diameter
• 颈jǐngneck
• 氢qīnghydrogen (chemistry)
• 烃tīnghydrocarbon
• 痉jìngspasm
• 泾JīngJing River

Characters that look like 茎

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

• 甚shènexcessive; undue; to exceed; to be more than; very; extremely
• 昊hàovast and limitless; the vast sky
• 芜wúovergrown with weeds
• 笈jítrunks (for books)
• 苋xiànamaranth (genus Amaranthus); Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor)…
• 苤piěused in 苤蓝

Sounds the same

Read jīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 京capital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old)
• 经classics; sacred book; scripture
• 睛eye; eyeball
• 精essence; extract; vitality
• 惊to startle; to be frightened; to be scared
• 晶crystal
• 兢to be fearful; apprehensive
• 菁leek flower; lush; luxuriant
• 荆chaste tree or its berry (Vitex agnus-castus); (literary) cane or switch made from a…
• 泾Jing River
• 鲸whale
• 旌banner; make manifest

Where 茎 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jīng–jìn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jīng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.