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Word and Radical Components of 香蕉

The Chinese word 香蕉 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
香蕉 xiāngjiāo 1. n. 香蕉
2. n. banana (fruit)

香蕉 ⇨ 香 + 蕉
Component Pinyin Meanings
xiāng 1. fragrant; fragrance
     (ant, zh, )
2. (of food) aromatic; delicious-smelling
3. (of eating) having the appearance that one really enjoys the food; (of sleep) sound
4. (internet slang) wonderful; enjoyable (q, in general)
5. popular
6. perfume
7. (religion) joss stick; incense
8. (figurative) woman
9. (chiefly Wu) to kiss
10. (Cantonese, euphemistic) to die
11. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 芳 (-, t=fragrant)
jiāo 1. banana; plantain (any plant in Musaceae, especially the edible fruit)
qiáo 2. Variant of ?
3. interj. (Cantonese, onomatopoeia) (sound of firing a gun)

香 ⇨ 禾 + 日
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. grain; cereal
2. rice plant
3. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, leetspeak or sarcastic) I; me; my
4. (Teochew, Leizhou Min) grain; cereal; crop
1. (star) Sun
2. daytime; time between sunrise and sunset
     日班 (rìbān) - day shift
     (ant, zh, )
3. day; twenty-four hours
4. everyday; daily; day-to-day
5. day of the month
     . (sān yuè sì rì) - March 4
     (syn, zh, )
6. some day; some other time
7. former times; previous times; the past
8. time; period; age
9. Short for 日本 (gloss=Japan; Japanese; Nippo-:)
     中日 詞典 (zhōngrì cídiǎn) - Chinese-Japanese dictionary
10. (obsolete) Short for 日斯巴尼亞 (gloss=Spain)
11. (zh-div, 母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of ltc-l, 日, id=1
12. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu, dialectal Xiang, vulgar, often in abuses) to fuck; to have sexual intercourse with
     狗日 (gǒurì) - fucking
13. Only used in (l-self-lite, zh, sc=Hant, 日)磾, a Han dynasty-era personal name borne by Jin Midi (lw, zh, 金日磾) and Ma Midi (lw, zh, 馬日磾, tr=-).
14. Variant of 時

蕉 ⇨ 艹 + 焦
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. grass
2. Variant of 草
jiāo 1. burned; scorched
2. coke (solid fuel)
3. anxious; vexed
4. (TCM) burner
jiāo 5. (physics) Short for 焦耳 (joule (energy unit))
6. (Min, Jianning Gan) dry
7. (Singapore Hokkien) cheers!

焦 ⇨ 隹 + 灬
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. short-tailed bird
huǒ 1. fire; flame
     可以 一個 ? - Can I borrow a light?
2. fire (as a disaster); inferno
3. red; fiery; bright; brilliant
4. to burn down
5. light; torch
6. (dialectal) light; lamp
7. anger; rage; wrath
8. to become enraged
9. angry; furious
10. (TCM) internal heat
11. firearm; ammunition; weapon
12. war; warfare
13. thriving; brisk
14. urgent; pressing
15. (neologism) to become popular; to go viral
16. (neologism) to be popular; to be viral
17. (Cantonese) watt (unit of power)
     ※(Definitely, "" here is a unit of brightness (luminous intensity). However, the brightness of a luminous device is measured in watts in life because of luminous intensity's dependence on powe
     20 燈膽 - 20-watt lightbulb
18. Short for 火星 (Mars)
19. (Cantonese) roasted
     (syn, zh, , )
     火鴨 - roasted duck