啫

zhě

noun #45,294

Meanings

1 (in 啫喱) jelly; gel
2 (Cantonese) a softening sentence-final particle

Characters

啫

zhě

jelly; gel

Examples

她在头发上抹了些啫喱。

Tā zài tóufa shàng mǒ le xiē zhělí.

She put some gel on her hair.

甜品店卖芒果啫喱。

Tiánpǐndiàn mài mángguǒ zhělí.

The dessert shop sells mango jelly.

Tips

usage

Mostly the loanword 啫喱 — 'jelly' or styling 'gel', borrowed through Cantonese. In Cantonese speech 啫 also works as a soft sentence-final particle, but that use is dialectal.

Components

radical

口 kǒu

mouth; sound

Left-side mouth radical 口. It marks the character as a sound spelling — both for the borrowed word and for the spoken particle.

phonetic

者 zhě

one who; (here) sound

Right side 者 supplies the sound zhě; the same phonetic appears in 猪 and 都.

Stroke Order

啫 zhě

啫