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Photo
Apricots 1 - Farmer's Market at the Ferry Building - San Francisco, CA - DSC03600
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Daderot
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CC0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

Photo credit

Photo
Apricots
By
Fir0002
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Changes
Cropped and resized

杏子

xìngzi
noun #25,358

Measure Word

一个杏子 gè

Meanings

  1. 1 apricot

About the ingredient

水果 Fruit · In season: summer

Small, velvety orange fruit with a sour-sweet taste, ripe in early summer. Eaten fresh or dried; the kernel inside the stone is the 杏仁 of Chinese almond tea and almond jelly.

Also called  杏

Examples

HSK 4
这道甜点是用杏子做的。
Zhè dào tiándiǎn shì yòng xìngzi zuò de.
This dessert is made with apricots.
HSK 5
杏子成熟了，又甜又软。
Xìngzi chéngshú le, yòu tián yòu ruǎn.
The apricots are ripe - sweet and soft.
HSK 6
她买了一篮新鲜的杏子回来。
Tā mǎi le yì lán xīnxiān de xìngzi huílái.
She bought a basket of fresh apricots.

Tips

memory
杏 is the character for apricot - think of the 口 (mouth) at the bottom as a person eagerly eating the fruit off a tree (木).

Stroke Order

杏 xìng
子 zǐ