啫

zhě

noun #45,294

Meanings

1 jelly; gel
2 a softening sentence-final particle

Characters

啫

zhě

jelly; gel

Examples

HSK 7-9

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.

HSK 7-9

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