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荚

jiá

Character Traditional 莢

What 荚 means

1. pod (botany)

Example sentences

• 很显然我们是豆荚里的俩颗豆子。
  Hěn xiǎnrán wǒmen shì dòujiá lǐ de liǎ kē dòuzi.
  Apparently we're just two peas in a pod.

Words starting with 荚

• 荚果jiá guǒseed pod; legume
• 荚膜组织胞浆菌jiá mó zǔ zhī bāo jiāng jūnHistoplasma capsulatum

Words containing 荚

• 皂荚zào jiáChinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis)
• 豆荚dòu jiápod (of legumes)
• 皂荚树zào jiá shùChinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis)
• 秋葵荚qiū kuí jiáokra (Hibiscus esculentus); lady's fingers

Characters built on 夹

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

• 峡xiágorge
• 狭xiánarrow; narrow-minded
• 侠xiáknight-errant; brave and chivalrous; hero
• 颊jiácheeks
• 浃jiāsoaked; to wet; to drench
• 硖xiáplace name
• 蛱jiásee 蛱蝶
• 铗jiápincers for use at a fire; sword

Characters that look like 荚

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

• 英yīnghero; outstanding; excellent
• 某mǒusome; a certain; sb or sth indefinite
• 莱láiname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 亮liàngbright; light; to shine; to flash; loud and clear
• 桨jiǎngoar; paddle
• 莠yǒuSetaria viridis; vicious

Sounds the same

Read jiá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 颊cheeks
• 夹double-layered (quilt); lined (garment)
• 戛lance; to tap; to scrape
• 铗pincers for use at a fire; sword
• 郏used in 郏县
• 恝indifferent
• 唊(old) to talk recklessly; to talk nonsense; talkative
• 跲to stumble
• 蛱see 蛱蝶
• 䛟variant of 唊
• 頬variant of 颊
• 袷variant of 夹