漿
jiāng
noun #13,356

Meanings

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

Examples

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

Tips

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

Stroke Order

jiāng