jiē
noun HSK 2 #956

Measure Word

tiáo

Meanings

  1. 1 street

Examples

Zhè tiáo jiē shàng yǒu hěn duō shāngdiàn.
There are many shops on this street.
Wǒmen qù guàngjiē ba!
Let's go shopping!
Jiē shàng de rén hěn duō.
There are a lot of people on the street.

Tips

usage
逛街 means 'to go window shopping / stroll around shops' — one of the most common collocations.
culture
Famous streets in China include 王府井 大街 in Beijing and 南京路 in Shanghai.

Components

radical
xíng
crossroads; walk (radical envelope)
Outer wraps around — its three left strokes stand at the start, three right strokes close the character. Originally depicted a crossroads, the perfect frame for 'street.' Indexing radical and structural envelope of the entire glyph; stroke indices skip the middle where sits.
phonetic
guī
jade tablet (here phonetic)
Middle supplies the sound (guī → jiē with shift) and sits wedged inside the surrounding frame. Same phonetic in , , . The jade-tablet meaning doesn't carry; pure phonetic placement at the heart of the crossroads = a named street running through it.

Stroke Order

jiē