浆

漿
jiāng
noun #13,356

Meanings

  1. 1 thick liquid
  2. 2 slurry
  3. 3 paste
  4. 4 to starch

Examples

HSK 5
Dòujiāng shì Zhōngguórén cháng hē de zǎocān yǐnliào.
Soy milk is a common breakfast drink in China.

Tips

usage
浆 appears in many compound words: 豆浆 (soy milk), 泥浆 (mud), 血浆 (blood plasma), 岩浆 (magma). It always implies a thick, viscous liquid.

Components

radical
水 shuǐ
water
Bottom 水 - full water radical sitting at the base, picturing a central current with flanking drops. Carries the semantic load: 浆 is a thick liquid, a slurry, the watery-but-viscous stuff like soy milk 豆浆 or paper pulp 纸浆. The radical anchors 浆 in the water family.
phonetic
丬 qiáng
split-wood plank (here phonetic frame)
Top-left 丬 - half of a split-wood plank, the left half of an ancient 爿 'bedframe' graph. Together with 夕 it supplies the 將 jiāng phonetic frame (same right-side bits as 将, 酱, 桨). Anchors the sound jiāng of 浆 through that phonetic series.
phonetic
夕 xī
evening; dusk (here in phonetic compound)
Top-right 夕 - a half-moon rising at dusk, here functioning as the right half of the 將 phonetic frame in this simplified form (the traditional 漿 had a fuller upper component). Together with 丬 above-left it locks in the jiāng reading; it does not contribute the evening meaning.

Stroke Order

浆 jiāng