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荠

薺
jì / qí
noun #62,402

Meanings

  1. 1 shepherd's purse (an edible wild herb)
荠菜 jìcài Vegetables

Examples

HSK 6
春天大家都去地里挖荠菜。
Chūntiān dàjiā dōu qù dìli wā jìcài.
In spring everyone goes to the fields to dig shepherd's purse.
HSK 7-9
荠菜馅的饺子特别鲜。
Jìcài xiàn de jiǎozi tèbié xiān.
Dumplings with shepherd's purse filling taste especially fresh.

Tips

usage
Read 荠 for 荠菜, the small wild green eaten in dumplings and soup in spring. A separate reading 荠 is only used in 荸荠 (water chestnut).

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
Top is the grass radical 艹, the side form of 草. It marks the character as a plant, here a leafy edible herb.
phonetic
齐 qí
even; together (phonetic)
Below is 齐, supplying the sound (kept in the qí reading; shifted to jì in 荠菜). The same phonetic appears in 济 and 剂.

Stroke Order

荠 jì