蕉
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banana
15 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,013 U+8549
How 蕉 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 (semantic, “plant”) + 焦 (phonetic, jiāo)
How to remember it
banana · Heisig RSH #1773
flower + roast turkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 焦
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 焦 (jiāo) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 焦 sound component | jiāo | burned, scorched; anxious, vexed |
| 鹪 | jiāo | wren |
| 礁 | jiāo | jetty, reef |
| 瞧 | qiáo | to glance at, to look at, to see |
| 谯 | qiáo | tower; to ridicule, to blame; surname |
| 憔 | qiáo | worn-out, haggard, emaciated |
| 噍 | jiào | to chew, to eat, to munch |
| 僬 | jiāo | clever, alert; pigmy |
| 膲 | jiāo | the triple foci, the three visceral cavities |
| 醮 | jiào | to anoint, to perform a rite; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony |
| 蟭 | jiāo | mite, larva; mantis egg |
| 劁 | qiāo | to castrate, to neuter |
Words containing 蕉
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蕉城区 | Jiāo chéng Qū | Jiaocheng, a district of Ningde City 寧德市|宁德市[Ning2 de2 Shi4], Fujian |
| 美人蕉 | měi rén jiāo | canna or Indian shot (genus Canna) |
| 香蕉人 | xiāng jiāo rén | banana person (yellow outside, white inside); mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for a… |
| 蕉岭县 | Jiāo lǐng Xiàn | Jiaoling, a county in Meizhou City 梅州市[Mei2 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong |
| 蕉城 | Jiāo chéng | see 蕉城區|蕉城区[Jiao1 cheng2 Qu1] |
| 香蕉 | xiāng jiāo | banana; CL:根[gen1],把[ba3] |
| 蕉麻 | jiāo má | abaca; Manila hemp |
| 蕉岭 | Jiāo lǐng | see 蕉嶺縣|蕉岭县[Jiao1 ling3 Xian4] |
| 芭蕉扇 | bā jiāo shàn | palm-leaf fan |
| 芭蕉 | bā jiāo | Japanese banana (Musa basjoo) |
| 蕉萃 | qiáo cuì | variant of 憔悴[qiao2 cui4] |