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香蕉

xiāng jiāo

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Measure word 根、把

香蕉 (xiāng jiāo) means "banana". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 香蕉 means

1. banana

The characters in 香蕉

• 香xiāngfragrant; sweet smelling; aromatic
• 蕉jiāobanana

Example sentences

• 香蕉很好吃。
  Bananas are delicious.
• 猫不吃香蕉。
  Cats don't eat bananas.
• 我是个香蕉。
  I am a banana.
• 汤姆喜欢香蕉。
  Tom loved bananas.
• 猴子喜欢香蕉。
  Monkeys are fond of banana.
• 你是个香蕉人。
  You are a banana.

Words starting with 香蕉

• 香蕉人xiāng jiāo rénbanana person (yellow outside, white inside); mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for…

Sounds the same

Read xiāng jiāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 相交(of roads, lines etc) to intersect; (of people) to associate with one another…
• 乡郊(Hong Kong) rural area on the outskirts of a town or city; rural-urban fringe

Where 香蕉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Food, Drink & Dining (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiāng jiāo correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.