noun

Meanings

  1. 1 finely chopped pickled vegetables
  2. 2 minced or powdered seasonings

Examples

Qióng shūshēng chī fàn zhǐ jiù zhe yì diǎn jī cài.
The poor scholar ate plain rice with only chopped pickled greens.
Zhè ge zì hé jī tóng yì, zhǐ qiē de hěn suì de shíwù.
This character has the same meaning as ji, finely minced food.

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usage
An old variant of , meaning finely chopped pickled vegetables or minced seasonings. In classical writing, eating only with one's rice is an image of a frugal, poor scholar's life.

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finely chopped pickled vegetables
Treated as one unit. It is an old, dense variant of built around the leek graph (chopped vegetables) under a grass top. Indexed under the Kangxi grass radical by tradition; the crowded modern form does not split cleanly into independent parts.

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