jiě
noun #37,190

Meanings

  1. 1 variant of 槲 (oak)
  2. 2 (rare) a kind of oak tree

Examples

Gǔshū zhōng "jiě" cháng zuò "hú" de yìtǐzì.
In old texts, 檞 is often used as a variant character for 槲 (oak).
Zhège zì "jiě" hěn shǎo zài xiàndài Hànyǔ zhōng chūxiàn.
The character 檞 rarely appears in modern Chinese.

Tips

memory
= (tree radical) + (jiě, to untie / separate). The right side gives the sound jiě and the left side flags it as a tree — a textbook phono-semantic compound. The character is now nearly obsolete and is mostly seen as a graphic variant of (hú), the more common name for oak species.
register
Archaic / extremely rare. Only encountered in classical texts, place names, or as a stylistic variant of . Do not use it in modern writing — pick or 橡树 for 'oak' instead.

Stroke Order

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